Richard Parlour is an international lawyer and chairman of the EU Task Force on Cybersecurity Policy for the Financial Sector. He is also a member of the B20 Task Force on Integrity and Compliance and co rapporteur on the EU Task Force for Improving AML Effectiveness across Europe. Richard has helped a number of companies establish themselves as new banks, and has assisted with a number of Authorised Payment Institution licences. Richard acts as an advisor on legal, strategic and policy matters to a number of developing financial technology companies on issues from payment technologies to secure document transfer.