Fintan is Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) & MLRO with Paysend EU Dac prior to his current role he served as CCO & MLRO with CurrencyFair so he has been in the FinTech space since 2015. He entered FinTech having spent the previous five years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with Arab National Bank. His broad range of banking and insurance experience has been developed as Compliance Officer and Company Secretary with AIG, Zurich Bank, Director of Operations and Compliance with Hansard Europe, Compliance Officer with Afribank in Nigeria, e-Business Risk Manager with First-e an internet bank. Before his days in cross-border financial services he worked in Lombard & Ulster and started his career with in branches with Irish Permanent. While working in branches he was in eighteen armed raids. He obtained his primary degree in Management Law at Trinity College, Dublin and his MBA in Regulation and Compliance from Smurfit Business School. Fintan has also served two separate periods as Director of the Compliance Institute.