Speaker
Jeff Trent
Partner
PwC
•Jeff is a Partner in PwC’s Digital Assurance & Transparency practice with almost 30 years of experience working with clients to address a wide range of internal control, technology and operational risk related solutions. Jeff is a current member of the AICPA’s Digital Asset Working Group, and chair of the Digital Assets Controls Workstream, having recently assisted in publishing the first framework addressing stablecoins reserve reporting and internal controls over stablecoin operations. Jeff previously served as a member of the AICPA task forces responsible for creating attest standards for providing assurance on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Supply Chain and was a member of the SIFMA third party working group focused on creating a market approach to meeting the needs of Third-Party Risk Management.
•Jeff has led the delivery of technology and controls integrated audit and third-party assurance solutions for a number of digital asset, life insurance, banking, transaction and trade processing, asset servicing and asset management clients. He has issued various SOC1, SOC2 and AT-C 205 internal control attestation reports covering a variety of digital asset, banking, credit card processing, insurance and asset management operations. He has also led assurance, internal audit and advisory assessments of internal controls over various aspects of trading operations at 4 of the largest financial institutions, including order management and trade execution, clearing, settlement, margining, custody, and stock borrow/loan. Jeff currently spends half of his time in PwC’s national office supporting digital asset audit engagements.
•Jeff is a CPA in NY, Puerto Rico and MO, is a member of the AICPA and the Puerto Rico Society of Certified Public Accountants and is also a CISA.