Focus on RegTech

Ian is COO at Governance.com responsible for clients, the successful delivery of its product and the strategic expansion of its operations. With a passion for people, change and growth, he has over 20 years experience across a range of sectors and roles. This experience includes delivering technology, business and regulatory consulting services both client-side and as a service provider. Prior to his appointment Ian set up and managed a technology-driven regulatory consulting service in Luxembourg.

Biography to follow shortly

Chris Hollifield is head of business development at Luxembourg for Finance, where his work involves advising FinTech and financial companies looking to develop cross-border activity through Luxembourg-based platforms. He also advises on the development of the ecosystem in Luxembourg and on synergy creation with other key financial centres, with a focus on East Asia.

Prior to working at Luxembourg for Finance, Chris worked in the strategy department of Clearstream Banking SA, an International Central Securities Depository that facilitates the settlement of interbank transactions in over 50 markets worldwide. Here, his work focused particularly on strategic projects concerning distributed ledger technology and other FinTech topics.

Margot Jacquet is a Business Development Adviser at Luxembourg for Finance. She advises financial companies and FinTechs to help them expand their cross-border operations through the Grand-Duchy. Her role involves promoting Luxembourg’s financial industry internationally and fostering collaboration with other major financial centres. She focuses more specifically on developing relationships with financial hubs and companies from South-East Asia and Western Europe. 

Luca Mancuso is the Business Development Associate for the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT). With experience in International Affairs, Luca works to develop the LHoFT community by involving Luxembourg Fintechs in local and international initiatives that aim to promote Luxembourg as a hub for innovation, open collaboration and talent in the financial services industry.

Raoul Mulheims’ first experience in digital product building started in 1996 with Luxembourg’s largest social network named Luxusbuerg which peaked at 70’000 users. In 1999, he co-founded his first company, Nvision – a digital agency – in his final year at law school in Paris. Nvision quickly turned into one of the leading digital agencies in the country, and Raoul was a board member until April 2018. In 2006, he became the general manager of a spin-off named Mpulse which is handling over 90% of micropayments made via mobile operators. In 2009, Mpulse established a subsidiary in France. In parallel, it began to develop a new platform focusing on bank-centric mobile payments.

In 2012, Raoul became the CEO of this new venture named Digicash Payments which is running the Luxembourg banks’ mobile payment scheme. Digicash was acquired by Payconiq in 2017. Raoul then co-founded Finologee to provide platform products and APIs to the financial industry (KYC/AML, PSD2, professional payments), Today, Finologee is one of the leading FinTech/RegTech players in Luxembourg serving more than 100 banks, insurance companies and other institutions with a staff of 40.

Karen O’Sullivan is Head of the Innovation, Payments, Market Infrastructures and Governance at the CSSF.

She coordinates the activities of this department which is responsible for financial innovation, both the application process and on-going prudential supervision of payment institutions and electronic money institutions, market infrastructures and the oversight of remuneration and governance practices and policies implemented within financial institutions.

Being the department in charge of financial innovation means that Karen and her team are the privileged contact and point of entry to the CSSF for the FinTech industry.

She represents the CSSF on an international level through participation in various working sub-groups and as speaker at several conferences, covering payment services, remuneration policies and corporate governance matters at both national and international level

Karen is both an Irish and Luxembourgish qualified chartered accountant. Prior to joining the CSSF in September 2012, Karen was an audit director at PwC Luxembourg specializing in the audit of investment funds.

Biography following shortly.