On Thursday, October 9, 2025, NYLIB will host a panel discussion on stablecoins, moderated by CJ Burke, a Manager within Deloitte's Blockchain and Digital Assets practice. Panelists will discuss what stablecoins are, their potential use cases, and opportunities and risks for community and foreign banks. Please register below.
Speakers
CJ Burke is a Manager within Deloitte's Blockchain and Digital Assets practice. He has extensive experience assisting clients with a range of initiatives, including stablecoin product offerings, enhancing risk management capabilities for digital assets, and regulatory licensing for digital asset product launches. He has authored several whitepapers on topics such as digital asset risk management requirements, digital asset custody, and the use of blockchain technology within capital markets.
Chris Lalan is a senior legal executive with over 20 years of experience in both traditional financial services and the digital assets space. He currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary for 1Money Co., a stablecoin infrastructure firm. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel for OKX, where he advised on global expansion and related licensing, corporate, policy, and regulatory matters. Prior to that, Chris was Associate General Counsel at Circle, where he headed the company's global Products & Regulatory legal team and served on Circle’s Senior Leadership Team. Before entering the digital assets space, Mr. Lalan served in executive leadership roles in traditional financial services.
AJ Macey is a Managing Director within the Financial Institutions Group at Anchorage Digital, focused on growing the firm’s cross-functional businesses, which serve the largest global institutions. AJ initially joined Anchorage in May of 2022 as a Relationship Manager covering both traditional and crypto native institutions for custody and trading services. Prior to joining Anchorage, AJ spent over a decade in traditional banking at Citigroup, with the majority of his time focused on institutional currency sales and electronic currency markets. AJ holds a BBA in Finance from James Madison University.
Keith Vander Leest leads strategy, sales, and customer success for BVNK’s Americas business. Prior to BVNK, Keith led the Payments Team at Cross River Bank, where he was responsible for the second largest business unit, covering acquiring, ACH, RTP/FedNow, and push to card. In his five-year tenure at Cross River, he grew the Payment Revenue to $51M with a CAGR of 70%. He also launched RTP and FedNow, growing Cross River to the number 2 US FI sender at over 3M RTP transactions, and additionally launched the acquiring and issuing programs, growing acquiring to $110B annually to place Cross River in the top 10 acquiring sponsor banks and top 20 issuing sponsor banks. Before joining Cross River, Mr. Vander Leest spent seven years at American Express in a variety of roles, including strategy, product, and business development, across both the acquiring and issuing businesses. Before American Express, he was at both First Data and Western Union. Mr. Vander Leest has an MBA and a BS in Engineering.
Sunil Sachdev leads the Embedded Finance and Digital Assets business with true horizontal accountability across the banking, merchant acquiring and issuing businesses at Fiserv. His focus is on leveraging Fiserv’s capabilities to serve a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, brands, software platforms, and fintechs. With a team dedicated to innovation, Sunil aims to deliver integrated financial solutions that meet the evolving needs of clients and their customers globally.
Sponsor
Acceleron is a modern correspondent banking technology platform that empowers community banks and credit unions to automate international wire transfers, capture non-interest income, and compete more effectively with big banks.
Registration
If you are registering for multiple attendees, please email names, titles, and email addresses to info@nylib.org. Thank you!