Compliance Officers are almost never promoted within their companies and have to change jobs to get ahead – it’s just statistics. Since I often help my FinTech founder clients to interview their compliance leaders and regularly give feedback about their existing teams, I think I have a perspective. Most compliance Read more…
Listen as Yana discusses why some FinTech startups make it to the top, keep growing, and secure license applications, partnerships, and funding. In contrast, most startups just run out of money and aren’t able to make it. What is it that those few startups have figured out? Yana gives her Read more…
Are you looking for ways to make more money in compliance? Listen as Yana discusses how people working in compliance, risk, internal control, or audit professionals who work in FinTech can make more money. Yana shares the pros and cons of three different ways she believes you can make more Read more…
By the way, in just a few days I am starting a 5-Day FREE FinTech Compliance Challenge, covering the basics of annual compliance, risk, and internal controls reporting. We are going to talk about who is successful right now in getting hired as a compliance employee or consultant by FinTechs. Read more…
I have this overwhelming feeling that the next several months and what we all do during this time on the personal and professional level and the choices we make, will be super important, not just for the immediate future, but for years to come. What happens now, reminds me of how Read more…
I’m constantly competing for tech resources with customer-facing projects and I can never win this. And since I cannot have the tools that I need, we have no choice but to add more people. I need to anticipate and write down all relevant risks and risk indications for my company Read more…
From time to time startup founders, regulatory consultants and corporate business developers spend their time on exploring new opportunities and building customer relationships. I have recently learned that it’s important to say “no” to a project or an opportunity very early on, even if it’s commercially interesting or has a great Read more…
The Catch 22 of Compliance Profession can be summarized as: I love learning new skills and I really need to learn something new every day to do my job, but… I don’t feel quite appreciated for my contribution and knowledge, people bombard me with questions, get their answers and go Read more…
If you work in compliance, you have told your business partners (multiple times) that they must “own their risks” and make the final decisions – and that the role of compliance is to remain independent and to offer expert advice. You probably think that this is just the way things Read more…
