Steven Kemmerling

Founder & CEO

CRB Monitor

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Steven Kemmerling is the Founder and CEO of CRB Monitor. With over 80,000 private cannabis businesses, 212,000 cannabis licenses, 137,000 decision-makers, and 1,600 listed cannabis-related securities, CRB Monitor serves as a “single source of truth” on cannabis-related businesses and their beneficial owners, enabling organizations to effectively reveal connections, evaluate risk, and make decisions with confidence.

With clients ranging from the largest traditional financial institutions to cannabis-friendly banks and credit unions to the majority of cannabis-banking software providers on the market, no single RegTech solution provider has more impact on cannabis banking in the USA than CRB Monitor.

Mr. Kemmerling founded CRB Monitor after a career as an M&A investment banker and securities litigation consultant and is an established subject matter expert and thought leader on cannabis banking, regularly authoring articles and speaking on panels on the topic. He was the first to lay out the now widely adopted risk-tiering framework to differentiate types of cannabis-related businesses and perceived risk in his 2016 ACAMS Today white paper Defining Marijuana-Related Businesses.

These cannabis-related taxonomies, and the data within the CRB Monitor platform, are now relied upon by financial institutions as they seek to understand the industry and to formulate relevant and effective policies and procedures.