Non Executive Director, SME, Independent Industry Consultant, Financial Services Regulatory Specialist, Strategy Adviser, FinTech Innovation & Regulatory Specialist, Keynote Industry Speaker, Industry Commentator on Financial Services & FinTech Policy.
Peter has many years experience working within the Financial Services Industry, UK & European Parliaments, Treasury, HMRC, DWP, TPR, ICO and the FCA, on a wide variety of regulatory & digital innovation issues. He has wide experience of both regulation & market strategy, together with insight on innovation.
He is a Director of Seneca Investment Managers and an Independent Industry Consultant at FinTechReguLabs and currently sits on a number of industry think-tank groups looking at the convergence of tech & regulation. He has also sat on a number of UK Regulatory Steering Groups. He liaises with regulators and ministers on all new developments in financial services, fintech & regulation. Peter's work covers policy matters across financial services distribution, platforms, technology innovation, and retirement, New Technology Innovation (FinTech, Reg Tech, Insur Tech & Pens Tech), FAMR, MiFID, PRiiPs, PSD2, Open Banking, GDPR and SM&CR amongst others. He is a regular contributor to industry publications and provides commentary on various industry issues.
He recently sat on the steering committee for the Industry Sandbox consultation and the formation of the FCA Regulatory Sandbox, which explored different models for new industry-led accelerators aiming to speed up the process by which new financial services products are brought to market. He also is a participant in a number of industry “thought leadership” and “strategy policy” groups.
He is a member of CSFI & ISMM.
peter.smith@senicaim.com / fintechregulab@gmail.com / @SmithyChat