Marina Olman-Pal
FinTech Guide 2025
Band 3 : FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending
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About
Provided by Marina Olman-Pal
Practice Areas
Financial Regulatory & Compliance
Banking & Financial Services
Fintech
Blockchain & Digital Assets
Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Corporate
Latin America Practice
Career
Marina Olman-Pal is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Regulatory & Compliance Practice. She advises foreign and U.S. financial institutions on a broad range of U.S. federal and state regulatory matters including licensing/chartering, acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, third-party risk management and oversight issues, BaaS and other bank/fintech-related matters, compliance with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations, and compliance with fair access law matters.
Marina counsels a wide range of companies in the financial services sector including, domestic and foreign banks, money services businesses including money transmitters, cryptocurrency businesses, Fintech companies, digital payment companies, and gaming companies. Throughout her career, Marina has represented clients before U.S. regulators such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, FinCEN, OFAC, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and other state supervisory authorities. Marina also regularly develops anti-money laundering programs for a wide range of financial services businesses and non-financial services businesses including, U.S. and foreign companies active in industries such as real estate, hospitality, automotive and artificial intelligence, among many others.
Concentrations:
Financial services regulatory and compliance
Bank and MSB formation, licensing, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
Bank regulatory compliance
FinTech/digital payments regulatory compliance
Blockchain & digital assets regulatory compliance
Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering compliance guidance
Sanctions compliance guidance
Professional Memberships
Member, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) Board of Directors
Chair, Financial & International Business Association (FIBA) Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee
Member, CrossTech Regulatory and Compliance Committee
Personal
J.D., cum laude, American University Washington College of Law, 2006
B.S., Biological Sciences, cum laude, Florida International University, 2001
Chambers Review
FinTech
Marina Olman-Pal co-chairs Greenberg Traurig's Financial Regulatory & Compliance practice. Olman-Pal regularly represents payments clients and is well regarded for her knowledge and efficiency.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Marina is really good at customer service. She's very business-oriented, finds solutions to make what we are trying to do work. She communicates risks clearly and is really knowledgeable."
"She is an incredible professional, not only an absolute expert, but a generous colleague who shares her knowledge, insights, and experience as part of the services she performs."
"Marina Olman-Pal is highly detailed, organised, and the process of interfacing with her is extremely efficient. She is always ensuring the newest precedent is spelt out in the docs and final memos."
"Marina is really good at customer service. She's very business-oriented, finds solutions to make what we are trying to do work. She communicates risks clearly and is really knowledgeable."
"She is an incredible professional, not only an absolute expert, but a generous colleague who shares her knowledge, insights, and experience as part of the services she performs."
"Marina Olman-Pal is highly detailed, organised, and the process of interfacing with her is extremely efficient. She is always ensuring the newest precedent is spelt out in the docs and final memos."
