Senior Counsel - Regulatory
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You will provide regulatory legal advice on cryptoassets, e-money, payment services, and account-access obligations across the EU and UK. You will support licensing applications, regulator relationships, corporate transactions, and operational compliance while translating complex regulatory frameworks into clear and actionable guidance.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer admitted in England and Wales, Ireland, or an EU Member State
- 10+ years of post-qualification experience in financial services regulatory law
- Experience independently owning business-as-usual regulatory workstreams
- Direct regulator-engagement experience
- Experience with MiCA or the UK Cryptoasset Regime
- Experience with e-money and payment services regulation
- Experience in AML/CTF
- Experience with outsourcing arrangements and operational resilience compliance
- Analytical, drafting, and organisational skills
- Plain-English writing ability
- Ability to distill complex legal and regulatory issues into actionable guidance
- Pragmatic approach to legal and regulatory risk
- Ability to operate autonomously
Responsibilities
- Provide legal support on cryptoasset, e-money, and payment-services requirements
- Support licensing applications and EU/UK licensing or registration workstreams
- Compile application materials and coordinate with outside counsel
- Support regulatory aspects of corporate transactions and structural changes
- Support day-to-day relationships with regulators
- Translate regulatory frameworks into actionable business guidance
- Provide clear recommendations to non-lawyer stakeholders
Benefits
- Remote work