Nathan Catania

Nathan is a regulatory specialist advising governments, supervisory authorities, and global crypto-asset firms on the design and implementation of digital-asset regulatory frameworks.

As a former regulator at the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC), Nathan helped design and implement Gibraltar’s pioneering Distributed Ledger Technology framework — one of the first bespoke digital-asset regimes globally.

He is Partner and Co-Founder of XReg Consulting, a policy and regulatory advisory firm serving regulators, finance ministries, central banks, and leading crypto-asset businesses. His work spans MiCA, FATF Travel Rule implementation, virtual-asset licensing, governance, and market-conduct standards for exchanges, custodians, and DeFi protocols.

Vice-Chair of the Gibraltar Association for New Technologies (GANT), Nathan leads its tokenisation working group focused on the tokenisation of fund shares. He began his career with seven years at PwC auditing financial-services and online-gaming firms, including investment funds, and remains an FCCA-qualified accountant. He is regulated by the GFSC as an Experienced Investor Fund Director.