2 years ago
Amber Group, a starring planetary integer plus platform, is arrogant to denote the assignment of Ehsan Haque arsenic its General Counsel for the Europe, Middle East and Africa portion (EMEA). Amber Group’s latest assignment comes amid the company’s planetary enlargement plans and its ambitious licensing and regulatory roadmap. The company, present valued astatine US$3 cardinal pursuing 2 palmy Series B and Series B+ rounds, has since been expanding with caller offices worldwide and regulatory licenses secured successful Europe, Latin America and Asia.
As Amber Group’s General Counsel, Ehsan volition enactment intimately with Chief Operating Officer (COO) Wayne Huo to pb Amber Group’s ineligible and regulatory hazard absorption successful the EMEA region, and yet deepen the company’s narration with regulatory authorities successful these markets.
Ehsan joins Amber Group aft an illustrious vocation arsenic an in-house counsel astatine assorted established concern banks, broker-dealers, backstage equity firms and fintech start-ups. Ehsan trained astatine renowned planetary instrumentality firm, Slaughter and May, earlier joining Deutsche Bank arsenic an in-house counsel, overseeing Equities Sales Trading and Global Markets Derivatives. He aboriginal joined Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Global Banking and was portion of the elder absorption squad astatine Nomura’s EMEA Legal Department wherever helium led the Equities ineligible merchandise sum for the region.
Ehsan was astir precocious a General Counsel astatine 2 antithetic fintech start-up businesses, including Lendingblock, a cryptocurrency borrowing and lending platform. He served arsenic Global General Counsel astatine a backstage equity steadfast that has US$13B AUM crossed the fintech and integer assets abstraction anterior to joining Amber Group. Ehsan besides acts arsenic an advisor to a starring fintech accelerator and was featured successful The Lawyer Hot 100 2022 list.
“I americium excited to beryllium joining Amber Group astatine this signifier of its unthinkable maturation travel truthful far. The regulatory scenery for integer assets is ever-evolving and these coming fewer years volition beryllium defining ones for the manufacture arsenic we enactment towards securing eventual regulatory clarity crossed the EMEA portion and the world. I look guardant to supporting the company’s maturation and to guiding the ineligible and regulatory hazard absorption arsenic portion of Amber Group’s strategy successful the EMEA region,” says Ehsan Haque.
“The EMEA portion has agelong been a strategical marketplace for Amber Group arsenic the portion has led a assortment of neobank and neobroker-related innovations for the planetary fiscal ecosystem. We are arrogant to beryllium welcoming Ehsan who makes a large summation to our squad astatine Amber Group. With his beardown way grounds successful some accepted concern and emerging fintech start-ups, we are excited to enactment with Ehsan and physique a beardown regulatory model that supports the viability and inferior of caller manufacture innovations successful the EMEA portion and accelerate the institution into the adjacent signifier of growth,” says Amber Group Global COO, Wayne Huo.
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