About

Based in Carrick-on-Shannon, AvantCard are a leading Irish credit card company licensed by the Central Bank of Ireland. The legal team is led by Fergus McTiernan, director of compliance, risk and legal. As a member of the senior leadership team, McTiernan ensures the voice of the legal team is heard at the highest levels of the company. In order to facilitate smooth running of the company’s day to day business, the legal staff are needed to provide an in-depth knowledge of financial services and banking law, whilst also ensuring the company and its business is entirely compliant with the vast array of financial regulation that applies to it. This has been achieved through internal training programmes for legal and non-legal staff.