Hannah Glass is a special counsel in our financial regulatory practice
Hannah focuses on fintech, payments and blockchain technology, advising clients from startups to ASX 20 companies on the evolving legal and regulatory issues at the intersection of finance and data. Drawing on a background in traditional financial regulation and markets, she is sought after to help clients implement novel solutions, bringing new products to market, whilst managing Australia’s complex regulatory obligations.
Hannah’s practice spans:
- Payments, including digital wallets, innovative payment systems and central bank digital currencies.
- Regulatory, including financial services and markets licences, payments, and anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing.
- Developing governance and a contractual framework (legal architecture) for financial technology solutions.
- Blockchain and crypto-asset services, including asset issuers, exchanges, custody solutions, and blockchain infrastructure, including layer 2 solutions.
- Tokenisation, real world blockchain solutions and smart contracts, including across traditional financial instruments like bonds and bank guarantees, green products like carbon instruments, provenance of commodities, and data management.
Hannah is at the forefront of the development of the legal framework for fintech and digital assets in Australia. For almost a decade, she has advised clients, industry bodies and government on complex policy initiatives, including reforms to our legislative framework for payment systems, digital assets, the consumer data right and regtech.