About this role
Building the Future of Open Finance
Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
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The team
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Our Regulatory Legal team is the group responsible for maintaining and growing Kraken’s product offerings across the EU and UK and for advising the business on its day-to-day regulatory obligations. We’re a tight, experienced group of lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of our advice – partnering directly with Compliance, Product, and senior leadership to keep our licensed entities running smoothly and our regulators well served.
The Senior Counsel role is a remote role based in the UK or the EU, and will report into the EU/UK Regulatory Legal team. The role exists to own the significant volume of ongoing, business-as-usual regulatory work that currently falls to a small group of very senior lawyers – freeing them to focus on strategic licensing initiatives, complex transa