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About the Role
Provide legal support on cryptoasset, e-money and payment services regulatory requirements, including advising on account-access obligations and related operational compliance questions. Support the team's active licensing applications and other in-flight UK licensing or registration workstreams, including compiling application materials and coordinating with outside counsel. Provide regulatory support on corporate transactions and structural changes affecting UK entities. Support the day-to-day relationship with regulators for our licensed entities. Translate complex regulatory frameworks into pragmatic, actionable guidance for the business. Foster a culture of clarity, favouring plain-English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and decision-ready recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal support on cryptoasset, e-money and payment services regulatory requirements
- Advise on account-access obligations and related operational compliance questions
- Support the team's active licensing applications and other in-flight UK licensing or registration workstreams
- Compile application materials and coordinate with outside counsel
- Provide regulatory support on corporate transactions and structural changes affecting UK entities
- Support the day-to-day relationship with regulators for our licensed entities
- Translate complex regulatory frameworks into pragmatic, actionable guidance for the business
- Foster a culture of clarity, favouring plain-English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and decision-ready recommendations
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, or equivalent)
- 6+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE) in financial services regulatory law
- Experience gained at a regulated financial services institution or in a law firm/private practice supporting such clients
- Demonstrated ability to independently own BAU regulatory workstreams
- Direct experience supporting regulator engagement with the FCA (or equivalent regulator)
- Substantive experience advising on the UK Cryptoasset Regime
- Substantive experience with e-money and payment services regulation in the UK
- Experience in AML/CTF (anti-money laundering / counter-terrorist financing)
- Experience advising on outsourcing arrangements and operational resilience compliance
- Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills with crisp, plain-English writing
- Ability to efficiently and confidently distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyer stakeholders
- Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk
- Comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy and owning a broad, fast-moving BAU workload from day one
Skills
- Financial services regulatory law
- Regulator engagement with the FCA
- UK Cryptoasset Regime
- E-money and payment services regulation in the UK
- AML/CTF
- Outsourcing arrangements
- Operational resilience compliance
- Analytical skills
- Drafting skills
- Organisational skills
- Plain-English writing
- Legal and regulatory issue distillation
- Pragmatic approach
- Commercially accountable approach
Location
- UK
- Remote
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE)
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, or equivalent)
About the Company
- Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks.
- Payward has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
- Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe.
- Kraken offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Equal Opportunity
- We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- Payward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table.
- We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job.
- We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.