Ben Mason

Ben specialises in providing compliance, governance and risk advice to boards of banks and regulated companies and assisting new firms get authorised by the FCA and PRA for the first time. He has worked with firms across a number of financial service sectors, in particular leading the applications for banks, investment and fintech firms. This includes supporting sectors that are facing FCA regulation for the first time such as consumer credit and cryptocurrency. For five years he was Chair of the Association of Professional Compliance Consultants Authorisations Working Group where he regularly liaised with the FCA authorisations team to help them consider improvements to the applications process.

As CEO of Compliancy Services he is responsible for the development of their strategy and the new products and service innovation. Under his direction the company has shown a strong aptitude for bringing successful new developments to market which have included a number of regtech services such as an e-learning platform with more than 5,000 users, a software as a service app that helps consumer credit firms manage their compliance, PSD2 compliance monitoring and third party financial institution onboarding and monitoring.

Before joining Compliancy Services in 2004 Ben occupied senior management positions, which included managing European M&A for a subsidiary of GMAC and as Operations Director for a specialist UK provider responsible for a number of asset management activities.