Welcome to the second installment in my mini-series on The Rise of Just in Time Compliance. Today I wanted to tell you my personal story about how I discovered the just-in-time compliance principles and how it completely changed my life. Rewind the clock back to 2016 when I was working Read more…
Do you feel you are being taken advantage of and you have no job security? In this Compliance That Makes Sense episode, I want to start a new mini-series of episodes under the common theme of the rise of just-in-time compliance. I want to start the series by addressing some Read more…
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…
In this episode, Yana will talk about what is safe to say and what isn’t safe to say about FinTech financial services, marketing, PR, communications, and its relation to compliance. Yana also discusses how to make or not make market predictions or how to avoid talking in a way that Read more…
Today, I’d like to summarize for you what would be the core advantages of having a licensed and properly regulated status in the EU for a global FinTech or crypto company. Large and relatively unified market (thanks to unified payments, consumer protection, privacy, security, and other relevant regulations) allowing to Read more…
I recommend that every compliance professional should ask their founders or executive team the following questions before they decide how to allocate their compliance resources and budget 2021. The FinTech industry is struggling with scaling and profitability, customer churn due to inefficient onboarding design, long approval cycles waiting for regulatory Read more…
What is really sad and devastating for the FinTech industry is to see how old-fashioned and narrow-thinking compliance professionals slowly kill their companies by doing [many or all of] the following: They try to make their management and Boards fearful and suspicious of internal and external audits, which makes audit scoping Read more…
Did you bring your sense of humor with you today? Listen, as Yana shares a special episode with you on how knowing compliance can be extremely useful when it comes to dating sites and investigating the people’s businesses looking to date you. A good compliance officer, if they are good Read more…
Something interested happened recently in my compliance world and I wanted to share this with you. A FinTech company was going through an audit and it was found that they had an institutional client with one of the owners born in Iraq. This person has lived in Europe for many Read more…
Why is it that very few FinTech startups keep growing, secure licenses and partnerships they want, and are loved and praised by their customers… while most other startups struggle and run out of money? They all operate in the same environment, get almost the same level of seed investments, graduate Read more…