In Focus: Fraud Watch - December 2025 (JA Captioned)

Joby is a global subject matter expert on cryptoassets, illicit finance and emerging threats. Joby has 18 years of experience and expertise in strategic policy making, critical thinking, threat and risk analysis across the U.K. Government, intelligence and regulatory community. In his previous role Joby was responsible for the management of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Strategic Assessment Team, overseeing a team of analysts tasked with delivering high quality intelligence reporting on money laundering, fraud, market abuse, corruption and other forms of criminality across the regulated sector.

As part of his role Joby has undertaken extensive regulatory and threat analysis of cryptoassets and represented the U.K. on a variety of high-profile engagements. Recently Joby has produced a range of thought leadership papers covering cryptoassets, their regulatory framework, the threat environment and cryptoasset business models. Joby has also had articles published relating to the importance of threat analysis and intelligence sharing.

Nils Mueller is the North America Chapter Manager of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), where he coordinates a cross-industry and cross-sectoral response to the online scamming epidemic facing the US and Canada. Prior to joining GASA in the summer of 2025, he served more than 20 years as a Foreign Service Officer with USAID, working across Africa and most recently Southeast Asia, where he led efforts to counter the scamming industry run by transnational organized crime groups. He also served on detail as the Senior Development Advisor to the House Democracy Partnership, a bipartisan Commission in the House of Representatives. Mr. Mueller holds a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.