GFCO Program Manager
About the job
- At least 8 years of program or project management experience, including at least 3 years in financial crimes compliance, anti-money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering operations, or a related regulatory domain.
- Ability to independently drive large-scale, multi-stakeholder programs in a regulated environment with minimal guidance.
- Deep understanding of anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism program operations, including suspicious activity monitoring/transaction monitoring systems, enhanced due diligence, screening, and suspicious activity report filing workflows, and supporting technology such as transaction monitoring systems and case management systems.
- Experience navigating known-problem/unknown-solution environments with constraints such as critical resource gaps and external regulatory commitments.
- Strong strategy and storytelling skills, including creating clear charters, roadmaps, and decision documents for Director-level and above audiences.
- Track record of driving operational efficiency and cost savings through automation programs, with rigorous measurement and workforce-management-validated outcomes.
- Proficiency in program management tools including Asana, Jira, and Smartsheet, and data tools including Looker, Snowflake, and Google Sheets.
- Communication and stakeholder management skills to influence Director- and Vice President-level stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- References are required for L6 and above roles.
- Own end-to-end program strategy, planning, and execution for one or more complex global financial crimes operations compliance program areas, such as suspicious activity monitoring/case automation, enhanced due diligence volume reduction, complaints, operations, or new jurisdictions and launches.
- Develop and drive program charters, roadmaps, and governance frameworks for long-tail, multi-constraint programs, including programs with external regulatory commitments.
- Lead cross-functional delivery across five or more teams, including Compliance Technology, Engineering and Architecture, Operations, Workforce Management, Legal, and Analytics, and drive alignment at the Director level and above.
- Translate regulatory obligations, operational gaps, and model performance signals into prioritized program strategies using an Eliminate → Optimize → Automate framework.
- Own launch readiness for new products, jurisdictions, and entity expansions, ensuring anti-money-laundering obligation mapping, tooling updates, procedural guidance, volume sizing, and training content are completed before go-live.
- Identify and resolve program risks, manage competing priorities with transparent trade-off recommendations to GFCO leadership, and ensure preparedness for regulatory examinations.
- Drive workforce-management-vetted cost-savings projections across automation and operational-efficiency initiatives, and report only confirmed actuals.
- Own intake discipline for the program area, ensuring automation requests, tooling changes, and resource requests go through formal intake channels with documented requirements and testing plans.
- Author and maintain strategy and decision documents, including P/PSs, RAPIDs, and charters, to inform Director- and Vice President-level decision-making.
- Manage the feedback loop between automation outputs, quality-control findings, alert productivity data, and investigator feedback to drive continuous improvement in automation models and upstream alerting systems.
- Lead Code Yellow-equivalent responses within GFCO, such as major lookback events, regulatory deadline responses, and Sev2 volume surges.
- Fields of study in Business, Technology, Operations, Finance, or Law, or a related discipline.
About the company
Coinbase runs a cryptocurrency exchange for individuals and institutions, alongside financial apps for trading stocks and other assets where available. Its consumer app brings buying, selling and account management together, while Coinbase Prime combines trading, custody and financing for institutional clients. Developers use its software interfaces to build wallets and payment services into their own applications, and customers link traditional bank accounts to move money into or out of crypto. Coinbase earns transaction fees and charges for subscriptions and services such as custody. It was founded in 2012 and is a US company without a physical headquarters.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2012
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Coinbase is gaining share: its reported crypto trading-volume share reached 10.3% in the June 2026 quarter.
- Most jobs keep location flexibility: Coinbase describes its roles as remote-first, with periodic in-person sessions.
- Dollar-token balances deepen demand: average USDC holdings in Coinbase products reached $20 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- Job security took a hit: Coinbase announced roughly 700 job cuts in May 2026, mostly completed by June.
- Stablecoin income tracks rates: Coinbase's stablecoin revenue fell 5% to $292 million in the June 2026 quarter.
- Average performance has a cost: Coinbase says unremarkable performance earns a severance package in its careers policy.
What makes Coinbase unique
- Its own blockchain extends the exchange: Coinbase built Base on Ethereum for developers to run applications and payments.
- BlackRock relies on its custody: Coinbase safeguards bitcoin for the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.
- Circle shares dollar-token economics: Coinbase earns revenue from USDC held on its own platform and third-party platforms.
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2%Coinbase Global's stock has fallen 53% over the past 12 months, while the S&P 500 gained 17.3%. Second-quarter 2026 revenue was 18.5% lower than a year earlier. On July 30, 2026, the company guided to about $540 million of third-quarter subscription and services revenue, down from $555 million in the second quarter. That line made up roughly half of second-quarter revenue. Repeating the second quarter's net loss for a year would mean a loss of about $1.4 billion. Coinbase holds $9.0 billion in cash and short-term investments against $6.7 billion in debt, and operations generated $1.7 billion in cash over the last 12 months. Operating margin narrowed to 11.7% from 27%. Management cut its 2026 adjusted expense guide to about $4.33 billion from $4.42 billion.
A New Unicorn Based in Kazakhstan: Network School Raises Funding at a $2 Billion Valuation from Polychain, Andreessen Horowitz, and Coinbase Where founders and engineers choose to build matters. Over time, their presence can shape a country’s ability to create companies, develop expertise and attract investment. Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan, former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase and former General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is raising an investment round at a $2 billion valuation. The company is headquartered in Kazakhstan. The round is led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase and Srinivasan. It was announced on October 9 at Network State Conference 2026. For Kazakhstan, the strategic significance lies in connecting international capital and expertise with local talent — and creating the conditions for that collaboration to produce globally competitive businesses. “Our vision is to build technology communities here in Kazakhstan that bring together local and international talent to serve global markets and work with leading international companies. We want these communities to take root here, creating highly skilled jobs and opening up global opportunities for people in Kazakhstan,” said Zhaslan Madiyev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development. Following a July memorandum with the Ministry to relocate Network School’s headquarters to Astana, more than 200 people, including its core team, have moved to Kazakhstan. Its community is now based at the alem.ai International AI Center campus. The next phase envisages an academic institution developed with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, a pathway towards degree-granting university status, and training linked to employment with Kazakh companies. For potential investors, this creates an ecosystem worth watching: one in which education, recruitment and company formation can reinforce each other. Sustained collaboration between local and international teams can deepen the talent pool, transfer expertise and build the relationships from which new businesses emerge. Our long-term objective is to ensure that these capabilities take root in Kazakhstan, creating skilled jobs and companies that serve global markets. #Kazakhstan #VentureCapital #NetworkSchool #TechTalent
Decentralised crypto exchanges (DEX): network fee against pool fee, and why custody decides. October 10, 2026 CryptoTicker general Neutral Decentralized crypto exchanges, commonly known as DEXs, are reshaping how traders think about transaction costs and asset control, with Ethereum-based swaps currently costing between three and five cents in network fees while liquidity pool fees on popular DEX protocols range from 0.01% to 1.00% depending on the trading pair. This cost structure, analyzed in fresh detail for 2025 and beyond, places decentralized exchange trading broadly on par with centralized alternatives when fees alone are considered, shifting the real decision point to three critical factors: custody, regulatory supervision, and on-chain record keeping. Platforms like Uniswap, Curve, and dYdX compete directly with centralized exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance, but the fundamental difference lies in self-custody of assets - DEX users retain control of their private keys, eliminating counterparty risk while accepting full responsibility for wallet security. For DeFi investors researching decentralized exchange fees, ETH gas costs, and non-custodial trading platforms, understanding how pool fee tiers interact with network congestion is essential to optimizing trade execution. The growing regulatory focus on Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements and transaction record-keeping also means that the custodial gap between DEXs and centralized exchanges carries increasing legal and compliance weight. As Ethereum's Layer 2 ecosystem matures and gas fees continue to compress, watch for DEX trading volumes to accelerate further against their centralized counterparts. On Ethereum a swap through a decentralised exchange currently costs three to five cents in network fees, while the fee for the liquidity pool runs between 0.01 and 1.00 percent depending on the pair. That leaves both routes level on cost, and what comes afterwards decides: custody, supervision and records.
Coinbase and Gennius plan ONED USD stablecoin access through Latin American banks. The Argentina-first program would let bank customers convert eligible deposits into a USDC-backed stablecoin and spend it with Visa cards 5 hours ago Sponsored: Fomo Family - fomo - Social Crypto Trading App & Web Platform Trade Now Coinbase wants to get into Latin American banking. It is not opening branches. It is borrowing someone else's. On October 8, 2026, Coinbase announced a partnership with fintech firm Gennius (Gennius XYZ) to bring the ONED USD stablecoin and a bundle of digital asset services to banks across Latin America. Argentina comes first. Other Latin American and Caribbean markets are planned to follow. The pitch to banks is simple. Add stablecoin payments, custody, trading and loyalty rewards to your existing app without rebuilding your tech stack. For customers, the program would let them turn eligible deposits into a dollar-pegged token, move it at any hour and spend it with a Visa card. How the ONED USD program is supposed to work. ONED USD launched in mid-2026. Each token is issued 1:1 against USDC held in Coinbase custody. Under the plan, bank customers could convert eligible deposits into ONED USD. They could also convert loyalty rewards, which is the more unusual part. Points that normally sit unused in an airline or card program could become a spendable digital dollar. Once converted, the funds could be transferred instantly, around the clock. Spending would run through Visa cards issued by the participating bank. Gennius would serve as program manager. That means it handles the plumbing between the bank's existing systems and Coinbase's issuance and custody infrastructure. Banks do not have to overhaul core systems to offer the product. Who Gennius is, and why Coinbase picked it. Gennius was founded in 2013 and reformed in 2022. It built its business on unifying payments and loyalty systems for financial institutions. The news moving money, markets, and the world - before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. The distribution numbers explain the deal. Gennius works with more than 85 financial institutions. It also runs more than 520 loyalty programs worldwide. It also has existing relationships with Visa and Mastercard. Coinbase brings the regulated custody, the issuance infrastructure and the USDC backing. Gennius brings the bank relationships and the loyalty data. The Argentina question. Starting in Argentina is a pointed choice. Coinbase has run into previous challenges in the country tied to local currency services. This time, the approach is different. Rather than going directly to consumers, Coinbase is routing through banks that already hold customer relationships and local deposits. The bank owns the front door. Coinbase sits in the back office. Banks already handle compliance, onboarding and local currency rails. Coinbase avoids building a consumer-facing local currency business from scratch in a market where that has been difficult before. What this means for Coinbase, banks and stablecoins. The most important signal here is strategic. Coinbase is pushing to embed itself inside traditional banking infrastructure instead of leaning only on exchange activity. For USDC, the setup is quietly significant. Every ONED USD in circulation is backed by USDC in Coinbase custody. More ONED USD issued through Latin American banks would mean more USDC locked up as reserves. For banks, the appeal is defensive as much as offensive. Customers who want digital dollars can already find them outside the banking system. A white-label stablecoin product lets a bank keep those customers, and their deposits, inside its own ecosystem while still offering instant, around-the-clock access. Disclosure: This article was edited by Kaye Quema. For more information on how Cryptobriefing create and review content, see its Editorial Policy.
Coinbase introduces USDC collateral deposit Card for unapproved One Card users. 2026-10-09 12:00:50 According to Coinbase's official announcement, the platform introduced a USDC collateral deposit option for users not approved for the standard Coinbase One Card. Deposited USDC cannot be traded, withdrawn, lent, or transferred; funds will be used to offset any outstanding account balances if the account defaults or is closed, with remaining USDC released after the account is fully settled. Disclaimer: The information on this page may come from third-party sources and is for reference only. It does not represent the views or opinions of Gate and does not constitute any financial, investment, or legal advice. Virtual asset trading involves high risk. Please do not rely solely on the information on this page when making decisions. For details, see the Disclaimer. In-Depth Analysis