After years of doing FinTech compliance consulting, I am now in the enviable position of being able to be picky about my clients. I have declined to join projects – and left some of my (former) ones – over a dozen times over the last 24 months. These decisions have very Read more…
In the last few posts, I’ve covered why 2 of the most commonly applied compliance strategies – “just-in-case” (preparing everything, losing yourself in piles of documents, and overspending money), and “minimal checklist” (where you end up re-doing everything over and over again, overspending effort) is not used by successful FinTech Read more…
Gaming is an industry that is growing super fast. Half of the world’s population are gamers in some capacity. And gaming is super profitable. In today’s episode, I wanted to give you one specific example that I feel will be very popular in the coming year. We are going to discuss gaming Read more…
Here is a short (comparing to the original 200+ pages) summary of the future EU Regulation on how EU-wide crypto licenses and issuance of crypto assets may look like. Key EU policy priorities: Expressed clear preference for harmonizing local counties domestic crypto licensing regimes to make them unified and passportable; Read more…
In the previous article, I’ve traced down how your mission as a FinTech startup founder brings you on a possible collision course with partners, auditors, and regulators because of an inherent difference of vision regarding FinTech compliance, and the role it occupies in your business. I’ve also warned against pride Read more…
As a FinTech startup founder, you are likely to have a customer-friendly mental image of what the financial services industry should look like: A world in which transactions are instantaneous and transaction fees are low; a world where technology helps include humans (billions of them!) into the global financial system; Read more…
Do you know what almost all compliance officers REALLY want? They want to work on cool innovative projects, they want to work with simple tools, they love learning new things and they want to be appreciated for what they do. It’s that simple. But… What do they believe? What shapes Read more…
In this episode, Yana shares with you her recent research around NFTs, their regulatory framework, and how they are currently offered and traded. You can also find more information about Yana’s personal NFT here. If you found value in this episode, I would really appreciate it if you could leave Read more…
First of all – what is an NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) from the regulatory perspective? Or, in other words – what do you actually buy, when you buy an NFT? In most cases, what you buy is a digital certificate linked to an image, graphics, video or audio file, gaming avatar, Read more…
Because of the type of service I offer, I have an ideal client base. Sometimes that means saying no to certain requests. In today’s episode, I am going to share a few examples of the times that I have turned down customers, in the hope that it will help make Read more…