Matt Clay

At a glance:

Joined Baringa in
2012

Works across
All areas of market and conduct regulation in financial services 

Job in another life
Groundsman – no one loves a beautifully striped lawn more than me!

In detail:

Matt came into consulting having spent the first 8 years of his career designing and delivering large benchmarking projects in the financial services sector. Having cut his regulatory-change teeth in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, he has developed a passion for helping firms establish, maintain, and leverage effective regulatory compliance.

Matt has helped firms of all shapes and sizes understand and address regulatory expectations. In a period of sustained and unprecedented change in the regulatory landscape, he has worked on the highest profile regulations impacting financial services and in many of the world’s most significant regulatory jurisdictions. This has included implementing various iterations of the Basel requirements, developing solutions to underpin Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID II compliance and helping firms to navigate the regulatory complexities brought about by Brexit. More recently, his prevailing focus has been on retail customer engagement and the delivery of good customer outcomes in retail markets. Matt regards one of his greatest accomplishments as helping a global bank execute its post-Brexit strategy by expanding the scope of authorisations for its EU27 entities.

When not dealing with regulators, Matt spends much of his time trying, but mostly failing, to encourage his two young daughters to embrace house rules and is fast having to accept that they are not as keen on compliance as he is. As a glory-hunting child of the 80s, he also spends far too much time and energy following Liverpool FC and trying to find inner peace on the golf course.