Willem Wellinghoff Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, United Kingdom, GB

Ecommpay is a highly innovative technology first merchant acquirer having developed its proprietary open technology payment orchestration platform focused on delivering tailored solutions for merchants in E-Commerce, Fintech, Travel and Gig Economy to be able provide total flexibility to their customers in payment options. At Ecommpay I am a Board Member.

London, ., GB

Mentor and advisor to a highly innovative fintech startup which focuses on providing an exchange fund to allow founders and material shareholder to diversify their risk (and avoiding placing all their eggs in one basket) by assigning their beneficial ownership of shares in pooled funds with other founders. As such founders will be able to share in the.

New York City, New York, US

Mentor and advisor to a global leading accelerator programme allowing fintech and technology companies the platform to accelerate their growth, market adoption and gain valuable investment and insights. Notable Mentorships Voted as one of the Top 10 Mentors out of all mentors in 2015. Notable mentorships are Oathello (2018) HomePPL and Shieldpay (2017).

Lehi, Utah, US

Senior Management Member for a Financial Services Conglomerate in UK and US responsible for global compliance, risk, financial crime strategy.

London, London, GB

London, England, GB

Paycast by Shieldpay is the complete payments platform for marketplace sellers and freelancers.Paycast partners directly with acquirers and marketplaces to enable totally secure payments between buyers and sellers. Paycast is the payments hub and digital wallet to online sellers, freelancers and gig-economy workers who sell their goods and services on C2C.

London, England, GB

• Board and Executive Member, and part of the co-founding team of Shieldpay, reporting to the CEO and the Non-Executive Directors, with the core responsibility for the setting and leading the global strategy of the legal.
• Managed and led the securing of regulatory licences for the business in the UK, Europe and US.
• Built the legal and compliance infrastructure that successfully commercialised product sales for C2C, B2B, Professional and Legal Services in UK, Europe and US.
• Built the compliance programme and product from scratch and integrating this into the technological design with an innovation and agile first approach.
• Strategic lead having led the creation of an integrated payments solution for gateway providers to offer enhanced commercial opportunities in connection with e-commerce and marketplace opportunities.
• Strategic Leader and expert for roll out of credit initiative for SME.

London, England, GB

London, GB

• Employed as member of the senior management team reporting to the CEO and approved person for compliance oversight and MLRO functions (CF10 (SMF16), CF11(SMF17)) for LendInvest Capital and LendInvest Limited directly.
• Successfully releasing a dedicated compliance e-learning programme
• Implementing and embedding a new compliance and risk management structure and strategy
• Designing and implementing new financial crime strategies and technologies.
• Responsible for designing and leading projects involving regulatory change including investor transparency and changing the firm’s online investment platform to comply with regulatory requirements tailored to high-net.
• Launched a Risk Committee with a risk management programme and enhancing compliance culture across the organisation.

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES(1) Legal, compliance and regulatory advisor on behalf of the UK Trade Association for debt recovery agencies, debt sellers and debt buyers.(2) Focus on the migration of consumer credit regulation from the Office of Fair Trading to the Financial Conduct Authority but also includes other subsets of regulatory compliance, including.

London, England, GB

• Employed as a member of senior management and group head of legal, regulatory affairs and compliance MLRO to the one of the Europe’s largest acquirer and manager of consumer credit debts. Regarded as a well-rounded.
• Led the business through FCA authorisation, the first in its industry to gain authorisation.
• Led legal negotiations and drafting of legal documentation in connection with the Company’s Bond Issuances between 2013 to 2016.
• Advised and led legal affairs relating to due diligence, investment, financing and contractual negotiations for the Group’s expanding M&A activity in the UK, Ireland, France and Spain with acquisitions made in 2014 to.
• Advised and led due diligence and contractual negotiations on the sale of the Cabot Credit Management Group to Anacap Financial Partners (private equity) in 2010 and to JC Flowers and Encore Capital Group, Inc (NASDAQ.
• Led legal and contractual negotiations on debt acquisitions since 2013, with over £300m capital deployed representing a face value of more than £2bn

London, England, GB

Plano, TX, US

In-house lawyer assisting, advising and reporting directly to the General Counsel and Company Secretary (EMEA) on legal and regulatory compliance (Internal Compliance and External Regulatory Compliance), company secretarial, general legal matters and Corporate Governance including, but not limited to, conducting litigation and legal audits on all European.

Call To The Bar (November 2004)

Barrister, Legal

Llb (Hons), Law

Baccalaureate