Ritu Verma

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in regulatory compliance across Fintech and Banking sectors.
  • Proven track record in managing regulatory audits and interactions.
  • Strong leadership in compliance risk assessment and management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Regulatory Compliance expert in the Fintech industry.

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About

I am a seasoned Regulatory Risk & Compliance professional, with extensive experience across Payments, Fintech and Banking compliance. I am well versed with managing both the functional and technology aspects of compliance and have experience in managing regulatory audits and interactions with regulators such as RBI, FIU etc. I am currently with Pine Labs as Director, Regulatory Compliance with end-to-end responsibility of managing the regulatory compliance function across the Pine Labs group. I have worked extensively on payment applications including PPI, PA etc. and also helped NBFCs with their application and compliance requirements across the broad spectrum of NBFCs in India. I have also worked as a consultant with PwC helping clients across banks, NBFCs and Fintechs on regulatory affairs. In my assignment with Amazon Pay I have worked on implementation of Regulatory Compliance for Pre-paid Payment Instrument (wallet) business. This role involved managing the RBI reporting requirements for Amazon Pay as well as working on SOPs for some of the key processes around Suspicious Transaction Reporting and other disclosures to RBI and FIU. Prior to this, I have worked as an AVP in the Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) team at Barclays, where my primary responsibilities included implementation of Barclays' CRA framework. I was also responsible for coordinating the various program management initiatives as a part of the PMO and managing some of the key operational risk measures for various BUs within Barclays. In my earliest role in compliance, I was working as a part of the team implementing the AMLock solution across multiple geographies at ICICI. I also acted as the liaison for regulators such as RBI and FIUs. I was also instrumental in implementing the Transaction monitoring and Sanction screening applications at ICICI across multiple geographies and was also coordinating some of the regulatory audits. Specialties: Payments, Regulatory Consulting, Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance Risk, Process Benchmarking & Improvement, Program Management, Project Management

Experience

14 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Payglocal

Head of Compliance

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Acfcs india chapter

Board Member

Jan 2023Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos · India

Pine labs

Director Regulatory Compliance

Apr 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managing compliance function for Pine Labs including liaising with the RBI, FIU on matters pertaining to PPI, Account Aggregator and PA/PG guidelines as well as assessing the impact of digital lending guidelines on the business

Setu

Lead - Risk & Compliance

Aug 2021Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pw and co llp

Manager

Apr 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amazon pay

Compliance

Feb 2017May 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for managing the Regulatory Compliance aspects for the Payments (wallet) BU within Amazon India. Tasked with evaluating and implementing compliance related processes within the unit as per the RBI requirements

Barclays

Assistant Vice President

Jun 2014Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Part of the Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) and Regulatory Change Oversight teams catering to APAC, EME and Americas region for transforming the risk assessment of 356 business units across the globe for the organization
  • Worked as compliance and regulatory change management specialist for businesses across AMER, EMEA and APAC businesses

Tata consultancy services

Consultant - Risk and Compliance

Jul 2013May 2014 · 10 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Led a team of 9 associates as the Engagement Lead on the project
  • Assisted the senior managers with the creation of pre-sales client decks and marketing material on regulatory changes like MiFID, Dod Frank Act, AML, Sanctions and KYC

J.p. morgan

IB Operations Analyst - KYC/AML

Mar 2011May 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Led a team of 8 associates as a part of IB KYC - EMEA; analyzed the KYC non-compliant transactions for the region (~€450,000 p.m.)
  • Identified and resolved 100% of the KYC breaches and assisted in its MIS Reporting to the senior management
  • Automated the Know Your Customer (KYC) process to cater to the enhanced due diligence requirements

Polaris financial technology limited

Associate Consultant

Oct 2010Mar 2011 · 5 mos · Mumbai

  • Served as the SME, in understanding and overseeing the KYC requirements of the client
  • Single Point of Contact between the onsite team in Canada and the 15 member offshore team

Icici bank

Assistant Manager - Audit and Compliance

Nov 2007Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai

  •  Coordinated with RBI and international FIUs for managing audit-related activities and regulation-based change management. Assessed and implemented compliance changes within the bank proposed by RBI in regulations
  •  Implemented a fuzzy-logic based risk scoring model for sanctions to assess and highlight risks posed by individual customers while on-boarding them to the bank platform
  •  Partnered with the business teams in defining the scope, timelines and budgets for KYC projects across business lines
  •  Implemented regulatory processes related to customer acquisition for different types of customers for the bank
  •  Part of the team that implemented the patented method for cheque deposit with image acknowledgement
  •  Implemented a suspicious transaction reporting module to allow users to raise suspicion on customers via the intranet. Live in 4 geographies and appreciated by the business team
  •  Integrated the AML system with the SWIFT Alliance system to enable screening of SWIFT messages

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Post Graduate Degree in Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

SGSITS, Indore

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Bio medical

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Kendriya Vidyalaya

High School — Science

Jan 1991Jan 2003

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