Recorded live at Baltic Fintech Days in Riga, this conversation cuts straight to the heart of what MiCA licensing actually means for crypto businesses operating in Europe today.
Gabija Vaiciulyte, CCO and board member at Nexdesk, sits down with us on the podcasting stage to explain how her company became one of the first to receive a MiCA license in Latvia and what that means for corporate clients navigating the crypto-to-fiat world.
In this episode, Gabija breaks down how Nexdesk operates as a crypto OTC desk serving corporate clients who need to move large amounts of crypto into fiat or vice versa, how MiCA licensing is slowly but genuinely changing the conversation between crypto firms and traditional banks, why AML in the crypto space is far more sophisticated than most people assume, and how stablecoins are quietly eating into the territory that SWIFT has long dominated for international payments.
If you work in payments, banking, or fintech and you are still on the fence about how seriously to take regulated crypto businesses, this episode will challenge your thinking. Gabija makes a compelling case that the infrastructure is here, the regulation is here, and the only thing holding the industry back is the knowledge gap on both sides.