Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs, APAC
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MeshFintech Digital Assets
APAC - RemoteFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 10+ years of experience in financial services, fintech, payments, or digital assets.
- Deep APAC regulatory expertise, including direct engagement with regulators such as MAS, HKMA, FSC, FSA.
- Strong understanding of digital assets, stablecoins, crypto payments, and related infrastructure.
- Experience advising on payments products, infrastructure, licensing, or regulatory regimes (e.g., MAS MPI, PSP).
- Commercially minded and pragmatic judgment.
- Exceptional communicator.
- Prior experience at a crypto exchange, fintech, neobank, payments company, or digital asset infrastructure provider.
- Familiarity with FATF Travel Rule requirements, VASP compliance frameworks.
- Existing relationships with APAC regulators, policymakers, or industry bodies.
Responsibilities
- Own Mesh's regulatory strategy across APAC.
- Lead the region's licensing roadmap from defining regulatory positioning and activity classifications to driving licensing applications through to approval.
- Serve as Mesh's primary legal counterpart with regulators across APAC, while developing and managing a network of top-tier external counsel in key markets.
- Stay ahead of developments across digital assets, payments, stablecoins, VASP frameworks, and the Travel Rule, translating complex requirements into practical, decision-ready guidance.
- Partner with business leaders on product structuring, market expansion, and commercial partnerships, while advising on agreements with exchanges, fintechs, payment providers, and financial institutions.
- Join enterprise and strategic partnership discussions where regulatory credibility matters, providing confident, commercially minded legal leadership at the table.
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