Richard Sachar is a director of FinTech Global, a specialist research and advisory firm, which operates the RegTech Analyst platform. Richard has worked with financial institutions and technology investors for over 25 years. His former roles include: leading private equity fund placements at Almeida Capital; fund management at Greenoak Capital; and consulting at McKinsey & Company and Accenture. He holds degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Lausanne, Birmingham, and Bristol.
Senior compliance officers are adapting to evolving legal environments. This is obvious even from the outside; the Great Recession triggered financial reforms across Europe and North America aimed at preventing the potential recurrence of such an economic calamity. What may be less obvious, however, is the fact that these legal changes are requiring compliance officers to rely on increasingly advanced technology for regulatory processes.
