Investor backed company Synapse provides payment technology solutions to banks and other financial institutions (FIs).
In this highly competitive sector, it is essential that the services and solutions Synapse provide to their customers meet all of the regulatory requirements those FIs comply to. Advisory boards is one of the ways vendors such as Synapse ensure they are on top of the regulations and compliance needs for the FIs using their platforms.
Synapse CEO and co-founder Sankaet Pathak had this to say:
“It is increasingly important that policy and regulation keep pace with the fast-changing fintech industry in order to safeguard consumers, while facilitating innovation that empowers those consumers with accessible, sustainable, and tailored offerings”
“We are thrilled to welcome four new members to our Regulatory Advisory Board, all of whom bring deep expertise in financial regulation, governance, and regulatory strategy and will help us work effectively with policymakers and regulators,”
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage will serve as Counsel to the Advisory Board. Other additions to the Advisory Board include Troy Paredes, Michael Mosier, and Sarah Elliott. Daniel Gorfine was previously announced as the Chair of the Advisory Board.
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage is a Partner in the Financial Services Group of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She leverages her years of legal and policymaking experience with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as well as over a decade advising clients in the private sector on corporate bankruptcy matters, to provide financial institutions and technology companies with strategic advice on bank regulatory and enforcement matters, third-party risk management, bankruptcy, digital assets, and related legislative and regulatory developments. As a former Associate Director with the FDIC, Barrage served as the Division of Complex Institution Supervision and Resolution’s lead regulatory policy expert, focusing on U.S. and global regulatory issues impacting systemically important banking institutions.
Troy Paredes is the founder of Paredes Strategies LLC. From 2008 until 2013, Paredes was a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving as a strong advocate for small businesses, facilitating capital formation, solving the information overload problem of securities law, and cost-benefit analysis. Since leaving the government, Paredes has had an active consulting practice. His consulting focuses on financial regulation, compliance, risk management, governance, and regulatory strategy.
Michael Mosier is co-founder of Arktouros pllc, a niche law firm dedicated to financial integrity and emergent technology, and has served as General Counsel to Espresso Systems, which is developing configurable privacy/verifiability for digital assets. He previously served as Acting Director, Deputy Director, and the first Digital Innovation Officer of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Michael is also former Counselor (for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and was Associate Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Before Treasury, Michael was a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering Section and served at the White House National Security Council.
Sarah Elliott is an independent director and the Chair of the Audit Committee for the board of Anchorage Digital Bank NA, the first federally chartered digital asset bank. From inception in 2019 until its acquisition by Walmart and Ribbit Capital in 2022, Sarah was the General Counsel , Chief Compliance Officer), and Corporate Secretary at ONE, a digital consumer banking platform. Elliott was also the first GC and CCO at Azlo, a bank-owned tech company providing banking services to small businesses, and the first lawyer and Head of Compliance at Blend, a digital mortgage application platform. Previously, Elliott was an attorney at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and at Buckley LLP, and a Principal at Promontory Financial Group.