Andrea Beatty

Andrea specializes in financial services, banking and corporate law. Andrea has the legal competence and understanding of regulation, corporate governance, compliance and risk management. She helps clients adapt to the changing regulatory landscape to meet the expectations of clients, shareholders and regulators.

Andrea's expertise extends to the design and delivery of extensive financial services training for financial services providers, senior executives and executives, law and compliance officers, consumer advocates and attorneys.

Andrea advises national and international institutions on financial services, credit licenses and incentive acquisition. She specializes in advising on structuring and establishing financial services and credit businesses including license obligations, drafting plain English documents, procedures, systems audits and online web application processes. She also advises on regulatory compliance projects and audits, regulatory enforcement defenses, and regulator investigations and disputes.

Andrea's experience includes advising clients on financial products and channels, including FinTech solutions, peer to peer lending platforms, crowdfunding, payment systems, cryptocurrency, reward programs, gift cards and financial services acquisitions, disposals, and alliances.

Andrea also has in depth knowledge of privacy laws and regularly advises clients on data and privacy security and breach remediation.Andrea has been appointed an AUSTRAC authorised external AML/CTF auditor, regularly developing and conducting independent reviews of AML/CTF programs.
Andrea regularly conducts training programs and full day workshops for clients including Australian Credit Licence and Australian Financial Services Licence compulsory responsible managers training, privacy training, regulatory updates and “Back to Basics” credit law, privacy, antimoney laundering and other training workshops.

Andrea is widely-published and her authorship include 6 editions of the leading consumer law text `Annotated National Credit Code` the most recent edition published in November 2019 by LexisNexis, the `Australia` chapters in the `Consumer Finance Law Review` and the `Banking Regulation Review` (The Law Reviews, Law Business Research Ltd UK).

Andrea is a member of numerous financial services professional associations.

Recognized Since: 2012
Recognized in: Financial Institutions, Privacy and Data, Security Law...
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