Background & Biography
Moor’s route into digital-asset policy runs through conventional banking supervision and financial-market regulation. Public professional biographies describe earlier work at De Nederlandsche Bank and experience in structured finance and covered bonds at HSBC, Fitch Ratings and Fortis Bank. The London Blockchain Conference’s biography dates his focus on crypto-assets to January 2023. These details provide career context, while the strongest record of his contribution is in named institutional publications and research credits.
His responsibilities have covered several aspects of bank balance sheets and risk measurement. The EBA’s 2024–2026 Single Programming Document identifies him as the team leader for IFRS 9 benchmarking. That is a specific, dated assignment concerning the comparability of banks’ accounting practices; it should not be assumed to describe his entire current remit. It nevertheless shows why his crypto-asset work sits within a longer engagement with financial reporting, risk and supervisory consistency.
Public sources use Principal Policy Advisor, Principal Policy Expert and Principal Policy Officer for his EBA role. This profile uses the current 2026 event listing’s adviser formulation, supported by his public professional affiliation and a direct specialist-media interview identifying him at the EBA. France is the professional location listed on his public profile. The available evidence does not justify adding personal background, educational credentials or a more detailed employment chronology.
Notable Contributions
Synthetic securitisation is an important part of Moor’s earlier public record. In a 2017 article hosted by the EBA, he and Massimiliano Rimarchi examined its harmonisation and standardisation. The article explains the transfer of credit risk through protection agreements while the underlying exposures remain on the originator’s balance sheet. That distinction matters for understanding the risks and obligations of the parties. The publication records a joint analytical contribution, rather than establishing sole personal authorship of the EU’s eventual regulatory framework.
Structured Credit Investor recognized Moor with its Personal Contribution to the Industry award in October 2021. Its accompanying interview identified the simple, transparent and standardised framework for synthetic securitisations as an achievement he particularly valued. This provides independent evidence that his work had attracted attention among specialists in credit-risk transfer. An industry award is a measure of recognition within that community, however, and is not an independent test of every policy outcome. It also predates his more recent public concentration on crypto-assets.
His research extends beyond a single asset class. Sustainable Finance: Market Practices, an EBA research paper dated January 2020, was written with Adrienne Coleton, Maria Font Brucart, Pilar Gutierrez and Fabien Le Tennier. Drawing on a survey, it examined how credit institutions understood environmental, social and governance considerations and incorporated them into strategy, governance, risk management and disclosure. Its contribution was to document practices and differences across institutions. That work is relevant to his wider career as evidence of attention to definitions and implementation, without implying that sustainability research and crypto supervision are the same policy task.
A more direct digital-asset contribution appears in Basel Committee Working Paper 44, published in August 2024. Moor is listed as the EBA member of the permissionless distributed-ledger-technology workstream. The paper examines operational, governance, legal, compliance and settlement risks when banks use networks involving participants they cannot readily identify or oversee. It also considers possible safeguards and notes that mitigation methods were still developing and had not been tested under stress. The paper explicitly separates its authors’ views from official positions of the Basel Committee, its members and the BIS. Membership is therefore evidence of participation in technical analysis, not personal responsibility for a binding standard.
Moor has also become a public interpreter of implementation issues. In November 2025, Global Relay Intelligence & Practice interviewed him alongside EBA senior expert Luis del Olmo about MiCA. The stated subjects included supervision across jurisdictions, the balance between education and enforcement, international cooperation and risks to market stability. The interview supports a specific form of influence: explaining how a complex regulatory framework is being put into practice. It does not confer on either interviewee authority to determine every licensing or enforcement outcome.
The EBA assesses whether asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens meet MiCA’s significance criteria and has defined supervisory responsibilities when they do. National competent authorities and other European institutions also have roles. The EBA’s June 2026 consultation on a methodology for fines illustrates the continuing development of supervisory procedures. The comment period closed on 28 September 2026; closure alone does not establish that the draft methodology was adopted. No evidence reviewed attributes that document individually to Moor. Its relevance here is the changing environment in which his policy and communication work takes place.
Why Katharos.ai Follows Christian Moor
Katharos.ai follows Moor because the connection between digital assets and banking increasingly depends on detailed judgments about risk, accountability and implementation. His career offers a view across structured products, accounting, sustainability and distributed ledgers. The recurring concern is how financial activity can be described consistently enough for institutions and supervisors to assess it. That perspective can be useful when technical novelty obscures familiar questions about exposures, contractual rights or operational control.
His influence is best evaluated through specific contributions and the quality of the policy discussion they support. A named workstream credit, a co-authored paper and a public explanation are different kinds of evidence, each with limits. The EBA’s mandate cannot be converted into an individual influence score, and an appearance on a crypto panel is not proof that a speaker determined a rule. Katharos.ai follows the substance of his work while keeping those boundaries visible.
Areas to Follow
- Further named research on banks’ use of permissionless networks and the evidence supporting proposed safeguards. - How supervisory practice develops around significant asset-referenced and e-money tokens. - The progress of consultation proposals into adopted procedures, with their status and institutional authorship clearly identified. - The treatment of crypto-asset exposures within banking rules and its interaction with MiCA. - Public explanations that clarify where national and European supervisory responsibilities begin and end.
Reporting Scope
This profile covers Moor’s public professional work as checked on 6 October 2026. Institutional publications anchor named contributions; professional biographies and original interviews provide career and role context. It does not attribute all EBA crypto work to him, characterize research papers as binding rules, or infer private positions from institutional employment. The profile excludes unrelated individuals with similar names and makes no claims about personal wealth, holdings or private life.
Areas of Influence
Policy & Regulation is the principal category, encompassing banking standards, regulatory research and implementation. Stablecoins & Payments reflects the relevance of his MiCA work to asset-referenced and e-money tokens. These categories describe professional subject matter, not an endorsement of particular products or a claim that Moor individually exercises the EBA’s supervisory powers.
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