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Leading partner of the Financial Regulation group of Deloitte Legal and head of its FinTech practice.

Before joining Deloitte Legal in 2016, Francisco was General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of ING for Spain and Portugal, in charge of managing the Legal Department of the different banking business of ING Bank in Spain & Portugal (19 lawyers) and of the advice to the Management Team. He was also in this period Secretary to the Board of Directors of ING Bank Spain and its subsidiaries, Head of the ING Bank Spain Ombudsman, member of the Global ECB ING Supervisory Team and Leader of public policy in ING Spain.

He carries a huge expertise in Compliance matters and assistance to Compliance Departments, having been Vice-President of Cumplen Compliance Association for several years and combines the business world with the academic world, since he is a teacher on Compliance in IE business school LLM programs

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Francisco holds a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza, an LLM from the Instituto Empresa (IE Business School), with a Cum Laude rating, and a Master in Banking and Finance from CEF.

He has been recognized in Chambers & Partners Fintech directory and is recognized in Band 3 of Financial Regulation directory of Chambers Global. He is also recognized by Legal500 and by Best Lawyers.  He is winner of Gold Award 2016 to best TMT Lawyer of the year in Spain & Portugal and double winner (2011 y 2013) of the 40 under 40 Awards (Iberian Lawyer).