Sven Niederheide

Sven Niederheide is Chief Compliance Officer at Blockchain.com. Based in Germany, Sven previously served as the Head of Legal and Compliance and as Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), where he has been working alongside regulators and acquiring the appropriate licenses in Europe and beyond. With nearly 20 years of management experience in banking, payments, and fintech within Germany, the UK, and Europe, Sven specializes in helping to scale businesses through strategic banking and payments licensing. He has extensive experience handling crypto regulation, corporate and regulatory compliance, open banking, anti-money laundering, and more at companies like neobank N26, fintech Moss, former automotive financial services firm GMAC, Hamburg Commercial Bank, as well as all of GE Capital’s businesses in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. During his time at Hamburg Commercial Bank AG, Sven also supported the transition from BaFin supervision to the European Central Bank including its Assets Quality Review (AQR) and later the successful sale of the formally state owned bank to a consortium led by Cerberus Capital Management. A former Chief Compliance Officer, Sven is skilled at navigating complex regulatory landscapes.