Chief Risk Officer

About the Company

This organization operates in high-risk payment corridors — cross-border transfers, international emerging markets, and high-risk merchant categories including streaming and online gambling. Compliance is treated not as a checkbox, but as a competitive differentiator and existential requirement. The company is building toward a potential bank charter and requires a risk executive who can credibly own both the financial risk and the compliance risk of the institution.

The Opportunity

This is the highest-priority executive hire. The ideal CRO genuinely straddles risk and compliance — someone with a financial risk background who has deep expertise in BSA/AML, and who can speak intelligently to credit, liquidity, and interest rate risk in the same breath. Candidates with experience exclusively in enterprise risk management or exclusively in compliance are unlikely to be the right fi...