Senior Counsel Product Asia Pacific
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will provide legal support for APAC product launches, regulatory licensing, documentation, and product changes. You will manage local counsel, translate regulatory requirements into practical guidance, support licensing initiatives, and use AI-assisted tools to improve legal work.
Requirements
- Law
- Financial services regulation
- Regulatory relationship
- Regulatory compliance
- Licensing
- Outside counsel management
- Anti-money laundering
- Counter-terrorist financing
- Legal analysis
- Legal drafting
- Product legal advice
- Derivatives
- OTC option
- Custody
- Payment
- Card regulation
- Crypto
- Digital asset
Responsibilities
- Provide product legal support for APAC launches and enablement
- Manage outside-counsel engagements
- Translate regulatory frameworks into actionable guidance
- Use AI-assisted tools for legal analysis and matter tracking
- Own APAC regulatory workload
- Manage geography-specific licensing and supervise local counsel
- Support licensing initiatives in Singapore and Hong Kong