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Talis Putnins is a Professor of Finance at UTS and Chief Scientist of the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre. His research interests include financial markets, decentralised finance and blockchains, and forensic finance including market manipulation, insider trading, and criminal financing. Talis regularly serves as a policy advisor and consultant to governments, stock exchanges, financial institutions, and DeFi projects, and an expert witness in legal cases.