Marina Olman-Pal

Financial Regulatory & Compliance

Banking & Financial Services

Fintech

Blockchain & Digital Assets

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Corporate

Latin America Practice

Marina Olman-Pal is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Regulatory & Compliance Practice. She advises foreign and U.S. financial institutions on a broad range of U.S. federal and state regulatory matters including licensing/chartering, acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, third-party risk management and oversight issues, BaaS and other bank/fintech-related matters, compliance with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations, and compliance with fair access law matters.

Marina counsels a wide range of companies in the financial services sector including, domestic and foreign banks, money services businesses including money transmitters, cryptocurrency businesses, Fintech companies, digital payment companies, and gaming companies. Throughout her career, Marina has represented clients before U.S. regulators such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, FinCEN, OFAC, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and other state supervisory authorities. Marina also regularly develops anti-money laundering programs for a wide range of financial services businesses and non-financial services businesses including, U.S. and foreign companies active in industries such as real estate, hospitality, automotive and artificial intelligence, among many others.

Concentrations:

Financial services regulatory and compliance

Bank and MSB formation, licensing, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

Bank regulatory compliance

FinTech/digital payments regulatory compliance

Blockchain & digital assets regulatory compliance

Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering compliance guidance

Sanctions compliance guidance

Vice Chair, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) Executive Committee

Member, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) Board of Directors

Chair, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee

Member, CrossTech Regulatory and Compliance Committee

Education

J.D., cum laude, American University Washington College of Law, 2006

B.S., Biological Sciences, cum laude, Florida International University, 2001