LendingCrowd is delighted to announce that Helen McKay, our Danger & Compliance Officer, has been recognised within the Innovate Finance Girls in FinTech Powerlist 2019.
Helen joined LendingCrowd in 2014 as our first
worker, within the position of Senior Credit score Danger Specialist. She was instrumental in
constructing our lending coverage and affordability assessments, guaranteeing acceptable
compliance was in place from the outset. Helen’s invaluable expertise helped
LendingCrowd to develop into the primary SME-focused fintech lender to maneuver from
interim to full Monetary Conduct Authority permission in 2017.
As our staff has grown, Helen has used her data
and expertise to make sure that compliance stays on the very core of our
enterprise, guaranteeing consistency and offering steerage to new staff members. She
has been recognised in Innovate Finance’s record of main policymakers and
regulatory specialists.
Helen mentioned: “I joined LendingCrowd as a result of I knew it might make a key distinction to small companies that had been discovering it troublesome to get funding. I additionally noticed a brand new problem to make use of the abilities and data gained from my banking profession to assist a start-up enterprise – a possibility that doesn’t come alongside every single day.”
Innovate Finance is the unbiased business physique
that represents and advances the worldwide fintech group within the UK. Its
mission is to speed up the UK’s main position within the monetary
providers sector by immediately supporting the following technology of
technology-led innovators.
Clare Black, Director of Company Affairs &
Communications at Innovate Finance, mentioned: “We had been delighted to obtain so many
high-quality functions this 12 months and grateful to our panel of prestigious
judges who helped us to pick the ladies who’re transferring the dial in fintech.
“I’m assured that the Powerlist and different occasions
which might be a part of our Girls in FinTech initiative are paving the way in which to a fairer
and extra inclusive sector, though we can’t underestimate the space we
nonetheless must journey to attain this.”
Helen is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute. Final 12 months she was appointed Vice Chair of the Institute’s Membership Discussion board and Chairperson of its Edinburgh, Fife & Lothians District Centre.
LendingCrowd founder and CEO Stuart Lunn mentioned: “I’m delighted to see Helen’s experience recognised by Innovate Finance. As the primary worker to hitch LendingCrowd, she performed a significant position in our growth and continues to make a major contribution to our ongoing progress.”
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