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 thought leader in the regulatory and compliance space, recognised by Finews as one of Crypto Valley’s Top Female Talents.
Cecilia is a purpose-driven domain expert, and operator who has solved problems for publicly listed and privately held, family-owned technology companies, asset managers, family offices, foundations, fintechs, entrepreneurs, and governments. She is Swiss-American and cares about shaping the guardrails for artificial intelligence. She has over ten years experience in leading cross-functional teams in finance, technology, risk management, algorithms, data, and high-performance computing, and has managed reputational, financial, macroeconomic, credit, operational, legal, technical, and security risks at UBS, SIX, and Deutsche Börse during various crises and regulatory shifts. Cecilia has been invited to serve as an expert on the Council of Europe’s AI Committee Huderia Platform.
She has mentored cross-functional teams in obtaining digital banking licenses, transforming functions through emerging technologies, adapting to new regulations, and evaluating regtech tools for implementation. She has built key talent pipelines at UBS. She drafted the CVA Code of Conduct, which has been adopted by over 1,000 individuals and 250 corporations. She is currently supervisory Board Secretary of an AI firm, Besso, that seeks to unlock hidden savings in supply chains.
She has worked alongside World Bank to build digital infrastructure that benefited tens of millions of unbanked that fulfilled five UN SDG goals. She started her career at the US Department of State and United Nations.
Accomplishments
Cecilia began her finance career at the BIS in the Monetary and Economic Department and worked for UBS’ Investment Bank and its Wealth Management arm, Deutsche Börse, SIX Exchange, and China Construction Bank Zurich. As Chief Compliance Officer, MLRO, DPO, IT Risk and Security Officer, Credit Risk Officer, Financial Reporting, and Senior Regulatory Officer, she was responsible for strategy, driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, maintaining risk and compliance frameworks, policies, audit and overseeing risk management, and internal governance practices across multiple business units across EMEA, APAC and N.America. She served as Company Secretary for three supervisory board committees at Seba Bank: Audit, Risk, and Strategy & Technology.
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.
Awards & Learning for Life
She received a cross-divisional, team leadership award in risk at UBS and a commendation letter from the United Nations for leading a global movement in over 130 countries early in her career.
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 Professional, Software Engineering, and Advanced Compliance Management from the University of St. Gallen. Cecilia speaks English, 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, England and the United States concerning contract and commercial law across a range of industries: from financial services, re-insurance, pharmaceutical, chemical, oil & gas, consumer goods, food processing and art.
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. He is a member of the Ethics Committee and the Nomination and Succession Committee of University of St. Gallen.
Prof. Müller-Chen regularly teaches business law (contracts) as part of the Business Law for Managers and iEMBA Program of the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen to executives, board members, consultants, and entrepreneurs from all industries, based in Switzerland, the EU, and the US.
He previously worked at the Civil Court of the Canton Basel-Stadt and, after being admitted to the Swiss Bar (2000), served as an attorney at Wenger Plattner (Basel) until 2009. Since then, he has advised on legal matters as a private practitioner and is admitted to practice in all cantons in Switzerland.
Prof. Müller-Chen has published in German and English on a variety of legal matters, including private international law, civil procedure law, Swiss Private Law, Contract Law, the international sale 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 the EU. Therein, he analyzes complex cross-border legal 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.
