FINCLUSIVE ANNOUNCES NEW HIRES IN COMPLIANCE AND CLIENT EXPERIENCE FROM NEW YORK FED, UPHOLD, AND PAYPAL
New York: Fintech/Regtech startup FinClusive has announced several new hires to bolster its compliance and accounts & payments applications and to continue growing its regulatory outreach and client success teams.
The company announced Taryn Nelson as Head of Risk and Regulatory Affairs, Elisabete Botinas as Chief Compliance Officer, and Cam Geer as Head of Customer Success and Partnerships.
“I am thrilled to have Taryn, Elisabete, and Cam join the FinClusive team at an exciting time in our growth and continued expansion,” said Amit Sharma, Founder and CEO of FinClusive. “They truly bring a rich set of experiences working at the top levels of government, in financial services, and fintech sectors. As FinClusive continues to lead in its mission to promote global financial inclusion and access, we’re lucky to have a group of such high caliber join us.”
Taryn joins FinClusive from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she provided USD banking services to foreign central banks, monetary authorities, and international organizations. Prior to that, Taryn was an advisor in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, where she supported the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force and other financial crime policy issues to include de-risking. She has served in various risk management roles for over a decade, covering sanctions, anti-money laundering and payments fraud, and promoted financial crimes compliance best practices in the official sector service space.
Elisabete brings 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including in banking operations, money transmitter licensing, and regulatory exam management. Prior to joining FinClusive, Elisabete was Chief Compliance Officer at Uphold, where she acted as the liaison between the company and both state and federal regulators in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. during regulatory examinations and state license maintenance for all U.S. states and territories. She has been a critical contributor to developing and implementing compliance programs for other fintech companies and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and ensuring the appropriate systems and supporting policies to detect, investigate, and prevent money laundering.
Cam Geer brings extensive experience in GDPR, Business Identity Verification, and FinCEN regulatory compliance from his time at PayPal, where he served as Director of Product Management, Merchant Account & Identity. He is also the co-founder of TrustFrame Inc. and a board member of Me2B Alliance, advocating for respectful technology that preserves individual privacy and agency. Prior to joining FinClusive, he served as the Product Lead for Identity at Chime.
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About FinClusive
FinClusive is a hybrid financial-/regulatory-technology company that enables digital access to accounts and payments with embedded full-stack financial crimes compliance — in one integrated platform. FinClusive’s application connects U.S. bank of record partners (for deposit and custody services) and alternative financial services providers, nonbank institutions, corporates, non-profits, and other organizations to conduct cross-border payments over virtual asset/blockchain and traditional bank rails, with global-standard full-service compliance.
As a compliance-first financial inclusion gateway, FinClusive uses new technology to provide comprehensive risk and compliance services for institutions and individuals who are underbanked, unbanked, or otherwise excluded (or “de-risked”) from the formal financial marketplace. FinClusive’s Compliance as a Service (CaaS) includes a wide array of know-your-customer (KYC)/know-your-business (KYB) tools, comprehensive due diligence, and organization-verification capabilities to ensure comprehensive understanding, vetting, and monitoring of entities globally. As such, FinClusive addresses financial inclusion by providing the necessary full scope of tools required to manage regulatory compliance and serve as a safe and secure financial access and facilitation channel for institutions and individuals globally — in particular, new and emerging alternative financial services providers and delivery channels outside of traditional banking.
FinClusive recognizes the ongoing decentralization of finance and the global growth in alternative providers bringing essential financial products and services to underserved and excluded communities. FinClusive works closely with U.S. and international regulators and financial sector participants to modernize essential regulatory compliance controls through its participation in a number of government and industry groups to advance these efforts. FinClusive also leads the Compliance and Inclusive Finance Working Group (CIFWG), which is driving the Rulebook, a dynamic set of modernized best practices for the growing fintech and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) sector, incentivizing self-governance and better aligning necessary financial crimes compliance (FCC) controls to their operations. Learn more about the CIFWG here and about FinClusive’s products and services here.
