Former MAS official Ziqing Ang joins TRM Labs as APAC policy head

TRM Labs has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore official Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy for Asia-Pacific as the blockchain intelligence firm tracks more than $103 billion in adjusted crypto crime volume in 2025. Summary TRM Labs has appointed former MAS official Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy for Asia Pacific, where she will work with regulators, law enforcement and private institutions. TRM tracked adjusted crypto crime volume rising from about $123 million in 2020 to more than $103 billion in 2025. Investment scams, including pig butchering schemes, accounted for 62% of fraud inflows last year, while AI enabled scam activity increased 40%. Ang spent more than eight years at MAS before moving into institutional digital assets through roles at Sygnum and BPI Financial Group. Her appointment follows TRM’s hiring of former MAS regulator Claudia Hui as Head of Compliance Advisory for APAC last month. According to details shared with crypto.news, Ang will work with regulators, policymakers, law enforcement agencies and private institutions across Asia-Pacific, focusing on illicit financial networks and policy responses as governments develop rules for digital assets and artif...