Shane Kelleher

Shane Kelleher, William Fry’s Head of Financial Regulation, Co-Chair of the Fintech Group and Co-Head of the Financial Services Sector Group, is a Partner in William Fry’s Banking & Finance Department and Co-Chair of the Regulatory Group of the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland, the main Fintech industry association in Ireland. Shane specialises in banking, payments and fintech regulation and he advises clients on all stages of the regulatory life-cycle including authorisation, supervision and enforcement. As of 2022, Shane’s team at William Fry had acted for 40% of successful applicants to the Central Bank of Ireland for authorisation as an electronic money institution, including 80% of successful applicants in 2020 and 2021 alone.

Shane and his team are currently advising on many other applications for authorisation/registration as electronic money institutions, payment institutions, account information service providers, crowdfunding service providers, MiFID investment firms sand virtual asset service providers. Shane’s other work includes acquisitions/disposals of regulated entities, compliance with conduct of business requirements and regulatory horizon planning.