About
Who gets to move money — and who decides.
The Money Perimeter is a publication about the machinery that decides who can move money: the sanctions perimeter states draw around adversaries, the compliance perimeter regulators draw around firms, and the geopolitical boundaries that finance keeps crossing. Perimeters leak — the leak is what this publication covers.
Who writes this
I'm Michael Waniek. I run Waniek Strategy & Growth (WSG), a Swiss business-development practice working in blockchain compliance, fintech and digital assets across the DACH region. Before that: institutional client work at BlackRock under MiFID II, B2B partnerships across crypto and fintech, and postings with the Austrian Federal Chancellery and EU delegations in Asia. Trained in anthropology and political science — which turns out to be exactly the right toolkit for watching regulators, states and money infrastructure collide.
I write from inside the work: the regulatory calendars I track for a living, the enforcement typologies published in open research, and the way deals in regulated crypto actually happen.
What the epistemics are
Every external fact is dated and sourced. Company self-reported numbers are hedged as "X states". Counterparties in field stories are anonymized. Companies I work with are disclosed when mentioned — and never pitched. When I don't know, I say so in print.