Juan Azel
Juan Azel
Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP
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Biography
Juan is a Partner at the international law firm of Winston & Strawn, focusing his practice in FinTech, banking and consumer, and financial crime regulatory compliance. He has over 25 years of both in-house and external counsel experience assisting domestic and foreign financial institutions and FinTech companies in regulatory compliance (both consumer and financial crime), direct and third-party risk management, supervision and examinations, governance, internal audit, investments, M&A, lending, capital markets, and corrective action/remediation responses to supervisory concerns and enforcement actions.
Juan serves as general counsel to the Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) and is a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the American Fintech Council. Prior to joining Winston, Juan served as Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Cross River Bank, one of the country’s most active FinTech financial services organizations.