Jason Mc Kinney is an Associate Director at FSCOM, where he heads up their new staff augmentation practice. But his route there is anything but typical.

In this episode, Jason walks us through a career that started in a property law department in Belfast, took a sharp turn into fintech compliance consulting, and eventually landed him as a global compliance manager and deputy MLRO before he turned 26. He then went in-house at Airwallex, co-founded his own reg tech consultancy, and has now come back to consulting with a clear vision for what good looks like.

We get into the difference between consulting and in-house pressure, what it actually feels like to sit across from a head of sales when you’re 26 and telling them no, how he built his support network as a junior MLRO, and why he thinks the Northern Ireland talent pool is one of the most underrated opportunities in financial services right now.

We also cover AI in compliance (what small firms should actually be doing with it), the FCA’s current view on fractional MLROs, enterprise-wide risk assessments, and what FSCOM’s new benchmarking tool is trying to solve.

If you work in fintech compliance, you’re building a team, or you’re trying to figure out how to grow a career in this space, this one is worth your time.
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