Etelka Bogardi is a financial services regulatory lawyer based in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a particular focus on FinTech. She has over 20 years of experience and heads the Asia Financial Services Regulatory and FinTech practices, where she advises financial institutions, investment funds, asset managers and FinTech companies on financial services regulatory issues.

Given her previous experience as Senior Counsel to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Etelka is familiar with financial services and products regulation, licensing and authorization issues, banking and intermediaries supervision and conduct matters, markets infrastructure, compliance and cross-border regulatory issues.

Etelka sits on the FinTech working group of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association and provides frequent commentary to the press on regulatory issues. She also serves as a Hong Kong ambassador to the Global Blockchain Business Council, and is a Singapore and Hong Kong ambassador of The Association for Women in Cryptocurrency.