Harvest Advokatbyrå’s fintech team advises a broad range of clients operating in the fintech sector, including start-up payment institutions, banks, credit providers, and crypto-asset service providers, on regulatory issues, with compliance matters, application procedures, and AML issues all areas of expertise. Noted particularly for his experience in regulatory compliance, Amin Bell leads the team alongside Anna Cumzelius, who stands out for her experience handling payment services, asset management, and AML matters, among others. Niklas Sinander is highly regarded for his broad financial regulatory expertise.
Testimonials
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‘Harvest has a unique position as they support financial institutions in all steps. They support in applications to the FSA (and other authorities), they provide support in writing governance documents and other regulatory processes (such as general risk assessment (AML)), they provide legal opinions and they also support in appeals. Harvest is one of the legal firms in Sweden that have this deep AML expertise.'
‘A pragmatic team with detailed knowledge.'
‘Björn Wendleby is extremely business oriented and very easy to work with. He is always available to discuss any issue and delivers to-the-point advice.'
Key clients
- Bankgirocentralen BGC AB
- Freetrade Europa AB
- Global X Digital Assets Issuer Limited
- Invoier AB
- Kameo ApS
- Optise AB
- Sigmastocks Neo AB
- Sileon AB (publ)
- Teknik Innovation Norden Fonder AB
- TF Bank AB
- Xbaht AB
- Zplit Payments AB
Work highlights
- Providing ongoing legal and regulatory advice to Teknik Innovation Norden Fonder AB.
- Advising Zplit Payments AB on various regulatory matters, including its application to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority for an authorisation as a consumer credit institution (brokerage).
- Advising Sileon AB (publ) on regulatory assessments regarding its activities in consumer credits and payment services.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Amin Bell, Anna Cumzelius