About Alexander Royle
Fintech, innovation, financial services disintermediation, breaking hegemony, and promoting better regulatory thinking.
Experienced, solutions focussed compliance and regulatory specialist particularly focused on legitimising innovation within incumbent frameworks. Proven track record of achieving positive, complex regulatory outcomes and engaging effectively with paradigm shifting structures.
Able to consider the bigger picture and quickly identify pain points for strategic mitigation. Successfully steered the authorisation and registration of the UK's first cryptoasset trading venue and VASP before scaling operations into launch.
Highlights:
- FCA National Expert seconded to ESMA's Markets Team managing the pan-European implementation of MiFID II
- achieved the UK's first 5MLD cryptoasset registration
- successfully steered FCA authorisation of the first regulated cryptoasset trading venue, custodian, and broker
- provided regulatory steer to Gibraltarian Government and Regulator to delivery legislative package to pave the way for digitally native CSD infrastructures