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 a high-agency Swiss-American strategic advisor, former C-Suite, who helps boards and executive management solve problems at key decision points, during growth phases and in complex situations amidst industry, regulatory, and technology shifts. She has hands-on applied artificial intelligence, data governance and high-performance computing experience and has been invited to serve as a technical expert on the Council of Europe’s AI Committee Huderia Platform.
Motivated to make projects more inclusive, democratic and sustainable, she mentored cross-functional teams at a digital bank, that reached unicorn status, benefiting tens of millions of unbanked advancing five UN SDG goals. She is currently supervisory Board Secretary of an AI start-up, Besso, that seeks to unlock savings in supply chains.
Accomplishments
Cecilia has worked at a global investment bank, a global wealth management bank and global stock exchanges and built a listed cross-border corporate bank from the ground up. As a FINMA-approved Chief Compliance Officer (banking & securities dealing license), Deputy Chief Risk Officer, she was Chief AML Officer, Chief Data Privacy Officer & CISO and Credit Officer. She was supervisory company secretary of a fintech bank and Audit Committee Member of PMI Switzerland Board of Directors.
She is a co-founder and former Chair of the 100 Women in Finance Zurich Education Committee and is currently a member of the Global Fintech Committee. She recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of 100 Women in Finance at the London Stock Exchange.
Awards & Learning for Life
She received a cross-divisional, team leadership award for advancing risk culture at UBS and a commendation letter from the United Nations for leading a movement in over 130 countries. Cecilia holds an E-MBA from the University of St. Gallen, an MBA from the University of Toronto, and dual degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds certifications in IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance, Software Engineering, and Advanced Compliance Management from the University of St. Gallen. She speaks German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
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, UK and the United States concerning contract and commercial law across a wide range of industries: from re-insurance, insurance, banking, asset management, pharmaceutical, chemical, food processing, industrial, automobile, oil & gas, consumer goods and art.
Accomplishments
Prof. Dr. Markus Mueller Chen has been a tenured professor of private law, international private and procedure law and comparative law at the University of St. Gallen since 2002. 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. He is a member of the Ethics Committee and the Nomination and Succession Committee of University of St. Gallen. He graduated with summa cum laude at the University of Basel.
Awards & Scholarship
Basler Wissenschaftspreis 2000, which goes to one outstanding person across all academic disciplines at Basel University. He was awarded a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Werenfels Foundation.
