Comply Now is a best-in-class global regulatory compliance advisory company helping crypto entrepreneurs and other financial innovators navigate the ambiguities of digital governance and compliance regimes across jurisdictions – allowing you to refocus on growing your venture.
We envisage a future where people everywhere (including the unbanked) can participate in a digital economy that’s fair, regulated, risk-managed and compliant – while making the modern financial marketplace safer and more secure.
We provide the compliance advisory services, knowledge, resources and tools that businesses need to be safe and successful. By lessening the workload of managing regulations and risk, we empower business owners to accelerate their venture in the new economy.
By being transparent and open in every aspect of our services, we bring clarity and understanding to the compliance and risk management sector – providing a clear and comprehensive explanation of the laws and regulations that affect today’s financial industry.
Instead of simply consulting our clients – we partner with them, working in close collaboration to understand their unique needs so we can provide efficient expertise. By investing in our clients’ journey, we achieve optimal outcomes that exceed their goals.
Conducting ourselves honourably and professionally in every instance, we lead by example. We do this because we recognise our integrity is the foundation on which we build a relationship of trust with our clients, and because we believe this is the right way to live.
We pride ourselves on our dedication to advancing the financial industry as a whole. Blockchain is a rapidly evolving industry, which is why we stay nimble and innovative to keep up with the latest technological and regulatory advancements.
Security is the cornerstone of any successful business. We’re driven to create a safer financial marketplace by making it easier for businesses – especially in the blockchain sector – to align themselves with the necessary regulations to ensure complete compliance.
The modern financial world is complex and changing every day, which is why it’s essential to have the most capable and proven compliance advisory support to protect the success of your business.
Our team has over 20 years of experience working closely with clients that range from traditional Fortune 500 companies to pioneering crypto ventures.
See our Successes page to discover the breadth and depth of compliance advisory services that we have provided, to protect and promote our clients’ success.
Cecilia Müller-Chen
The Founder
Cecilia is considered a visionary thought-leader in the regulations and compliance space, recognised by Finews as one of Crypto Valley’s Top Female Talents and a member of Prince Harry's 100 hedge fund angels.
As the former CCO and CRO for the original bitcoin and bitcoin cash protocol owners, she devised the regulatory strategy and successfully obtained licenses in multiple jurisdictions to enter various markets. Cecilia has devised and reviewed Web 3.0 decentralized and centralized governance, risk and compliance systems and technology for super apps and award-winning innovative unicorn projects and ecosystems that solve real-world socio-economic problems. She is the primary author of the Crypto Valley Association’s (CVA) Code of Conduct which at the time garnered acclaim from the crypto community and FINMA.
Cecilia has represented the bitcoin cash and bitcoin protocol owners, SIX Exchange and Deutsche Boerse and China Construction Bank Zurich and other projects before FINMA, VQF, FCA UK, Swiss National Bank, European Central Bank, ESMA, EBA, EU, IOSCO, Financial Stability Board, BaFin and many other regulators. During her time at SIX Exchange and Deutsche Boerse, she lobbied for third-country equivalence in EU laws.
She is proud to have worked alongside the World Bank and Consensus during on various DLT projects. She started her financial services career at the Bank for International Settlements in the Monetary & Economic Department.
Accomplishments
She is the former Chief Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Data Protection Officer, IT Risk & Security Officer at China Construction Bank Zurich and Senior Regulatory Officer at Deutsche Boerse and SIX Exchange Stoxx and has a track record of managing systemic risks during various crisis amidst changing regulatory environments globally and has built and lead successful, complex teams in risk management, compliance, legal and operations – as well as developing and executing high-growth strategies for business operations in multiple jurisdictions. At UBS, she has covered every capital market product traded in EMEA and worked with some of the brightest minds in technology where she reviewed front to back IT Architecture cross-asset globally and emerging technologies from Silicon Valley for adoption in the stack.
Awards & Education
She holds E-MBA from University of St. Gall, MBA from University of Toronto, and holds dual degrees from University of California at Berkeley. She has additional Diplomas in Software Engineering and Certificate in Advanced Studies in Compliance Management and Artificial Intelligence.
Earlier in her career, she was awarded a commendation award from Sadako Ogata for spearheading a global initiative for refugees around the world at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Prof. Dr. Markus Müller-Chen
legal off-counsel
Top legal firms and consulting companies call on Prof. Müller-Chen’s expertise in complex international litigation and arbitration cases in Switzerland, England and the United States concerning contract and commercial law across a range of industries: from financial services, re-insurance, and food processing to pharmaceutical, chemical and consumer goods.
Accomplishments
Prof. Müller-Chen studied law and graduated with a PhD (summa cum laude) and PD at the University of Basel, where he was also appointed as a senior lecturer for private law, commercial law, international procedural law, and comparative law in 1999.
Since 2002, he has been a tenured professor of private law, international private and procedure law and comparative law at the University of St. Gallen. In 2008, he taught a comparative law class at the Santa Clara University School of Law (CA/USA). From 2015 to 2019, he served as the Dean of the St. Gallen Law School. From 2013-2019, he was on the Board of Directors of the Swiss Association of International Law. And from 2015-2019, he was a member of the Supervisory Council of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law.
Prof. Müller-Chen regularly teaches business law (contracts) as part of the Business Law for Managers and iEMBA Programme of the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen to executives, board members, consultants and entrepreneurs from all industries who have been based in Switzerland, EU and US.
He previously worked at the Civil Court of the Canton Basel-Stadt and, after being admitted to the Swiss Bar (2000), as an attorney for Wenger Plattner (Basel) until 2009. Since then, he has advised on legal matters as a private practitioner and is admitted to all cantons in Switzerland.
Prof. Müller-Chen has published in German and English on a variety of legal matters such as private international and civil procedure law, Swiss Private Law, Contract Law, the international sales of goods, and art law. He is also the co-editor of a well-known commentary on the Swiss Private International Law Act which is used by many practicing lawyers in Switzerland and EU. Therein, he analyses complex legal cross-border questions that intersect various legal disciplines.
Awards & Scholarship
Basler Wissenschaftspreis 2000, which goes to one outstanding person across all academic disciplines at Basel University.
For his habilitation, he wrote about the consequences of breach of contract from a comparative law perspective and was awarded a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Scholarship of the Werenfels Foundation.
