Team – our network
To date, all services are provided and coordinated by the company’s founder, Laurent Bellieres. If necessary, and with your prior agreement, we call on experts from our or your network. Our network is made of outstanding professionals with whom we have been collaborating in some capacity and whom we can recommend (lawyers, auditors, notaries, consultants, bankers, etc.). Our team will grow as the need arises.
Laurent Bellieres
Highlights
- 5 years Ernst & Young
- 4 years KPMG
- Swiss Certified Public Accountant
- 15 years C-level in Swiss banks (Fintech, Private Banking, online trading)
- 3 years as independent consultant
- Multiple FINMA authorisations incl. banking and securities firm licences
- Versatile in risk, compliance, finance and legal
Bio
Laurent Bellieres has been a Swiss Certified Public Accountant since 2002 and has 27 years of experience in audit, consulting and C-level management in finance, risk and compliance functions in the Swiss financial sector. After obtaining a master’s degree in Political Sciences from the University of Geneva and a master’s degree in Business Administration from HEC Lausanne, he started his career as financial and regulatory auditor at Ernst & Young and then at KPMG, working on a variety of audit and secondment assignments with banks, securities firms, fund management companies, pension funds and non-regulated companies. After 9 years in Big Four audit firms, Laurent Bellieres embraced FINMA scrutinized roles in Swiss banks for 15 years as Head of internal audit, C-level executive in charge of key governance functions namely finance, risk control, legal and compliance including 12 years in a Fintech which he accompanied to obtain Swiss bank and securities firm licenses.
Serving these mid-sized institutions undergoing rapid transformation due to regulatory and business challenges, Laurent Bellieres has developed expertise in designing simple and effective control functions that ensure compliance, integrity and efficiency. Laurent Bellieres challenges the status quo and continuously optimizes the cost/benefit ratio of control functions to make the best use of resources.
Throughout his career, Laurent Bellieres has demonstrated impeccable integrity and the ability to inspire confidence in the institutions he has worked for. He has had many successes in his dealings with FINMA and foreign regulators, including obtaining a number of licenses and authorisations (Linkedin profile for more details). Laurent Bellieres also successfully advocated the digitalisation of client identification in the Swiss AML regulatory framework, resulting in FINMA’s circular 2016/07.