Giedre Mitkute, Senior Counsel

Giedre advises on laws and regulations affecting the Fintech, e-money and payments firms.  Formerly a regulatory manager at one of the largest UK prepaid card issuers, she oversaw cross-border regulatory compliance across multiple EU jurisdictions and regulatory change (PSD2, MLD4) assessment projects.

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Giedre trained as a solicitor at a US law firm’s London office, where she focused on regulatory and commercial matters in the e-money and payments sector; her experience included secondments with a UK payment system operator and an alternative payment service provider. 

Giedre works with e-money and card issuers, acquirers, money remitters and other alternative payment service providers, gift card and rewards solution providers as well as programme managers. She advises on legal and compliance matters including regulatory authorisation requirements, strategic regulatory projects, anti-money laundering and customer due diligence requirements, conduct of business, outsourcing, governance and change of control requirements, regulatory issues affecting cross-border services, multi-jurisdictional regulatory reviews and advising on customer-facing (B2B and B2C) and commercial agreements. Giedre regularly discusses issues impacting payment service providers with the UK and EU policymakers and regulators.