If you are a FinTech founder or a CEO, you are constantly selling and your hardest pitches are not necessarily to customers. First and foremost, you need to sell your business model, your technology, and your overall concept to regulators, banks, investors, and partners. You often need approvals and permissions Read more…
Dear FinTech fellows! You heard it right – I’ve put together a brand new absolutely mind-blowing value-packed FinTech compliance workshop and it’s totally different compared to everything I’ve done before because we will not talk about laws and regulations at all, but we are actually going to talk about SAVING 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…
I don’t believe that information is power in 2021, especially not in FinTech. Information about how one should run a FinTech business is everywhere and you can get it for free. More information does not empower anyone, more likely than not – it just creates overwhelm. Which is why, in Read more…
“2021 will be a year where professions that have been information-based will shift.” Today, Yana is discussing why she believes that the compliance function is an implementation function instead of just a providing information function. Yana argues that compliance has changed over the years, and since information is everywhere, it’s Read more…