Dominic Bacon
General Counsel – Head of Legal and Compliance, Dabbl Group
Dominic is the Managing Director of Squaring The Circle a legal, regulatory and risk consultancy company with both financial services and non-financial services clients based in London, Russia, USA, Ireland, Dubai, Ukraine, Malta and Slovakia.
Currently he is advising Dabbl Group Limited an on-line, next-generation, stockbroker that offers a radically different (and disruptive) approach to personal investing for Millennials and other tech-savvy individuals who want to invest but who don’t want to accept the traditional approach to stockbroking and related investment.
His role is to create an integrated risk, legal and compliance department that matches the smart-phone approach of the Millennials with the regulatory requirements of the FCA and other European regulators. In particular he has been tasked with ensuring that stakeholders are given comfort that both current and future (and ever-increasing/intrusive) legal, regulatory and compliance risks that are relevant for an on-line fin tech financial services business in the UK are identified and and are managed appropriately.
Dominic has experience of managing relationships with the FCA/FSA, and a number of other European and US Regulators.
He is also on the Advisory Board for The University of Wales – UCW Aberystwyth
Dominic regularly speaks at conferences and to MBA students on the role of the In-House Lawyer as well as on Risk and Governance and last year authored a chapter for “Legal Risk Management, Governance and Compliance – interdisciplinary case studies from Leading Experts” (2016).