Titulaire d'un master en droit des affaires et bancaire, Baptiste Forestier a plus de 8 ans d'expérience au sein de fintechs réglementées. Il a débuté sa carrière en tant que responsable du KYC et de la conformité opérationnelle chez Lemon Way, un spécialiste des paiements pour les places de marché.
En 2019, il a rejoint Spendesk, aujourd'hui la 26e licorne française, en tant que responsable de la conformité. Il a notamment contribué à l'obtention d'une licence d'établissement de paiement auprès de l'ACPR (régulateur français) et a également contribué à l'ouverture de son marché aux États-Unis.
Il a récemment rejoint Hero, une start-up B2B BNPL en plein essor, en tant que nouveau responsable de la conformité.
Hero is the financial OS for SMEs. We power SMEs' growth in Europe through better access to liquidity.
LinkCy is the White Label Banking solution (via App or API) for Global Market in Europe.
Its Plug And Play service enables all Companies to offer accounts (IBANS) and payment cards (Visa / Mastercard) to their users without any regulatory burden, in just a few minutes, compared to 9 to 12 months of technical and regulatory development with other Banking As A Service (BAAS) platforms.
LinkCy is a French fintech start-up incubated at Sation F with BNP Paribas & Plug And Play.
- Obtention of a Payment Institution license from the ACPR (French regulator)
- Creation of the Compliance Dpt. « from scratch » & Optimization of all compliance
related processes (KYB, transfers management, cards orders, frauds,..)
- Main point of contact with our regulated partners (SFPMEI, TPL & Marqeta)
- KYB management (mandate given by SFPMEI & TPL)
- Establishment of the regulatory context for the opening of the US market
- Implementation of the PSD2 (SCA on logins & payments)
- Obtention of a payment institution licence from the ACPR (french Prudential and
Resolution Control Authority)
- Automation of document controls and payment account openings (using OCR software, real-time sending of origin/destination requests for funds) => Average processing time divided by 10 in less than a year!
- Industrialization of processes (design of a new KYC workflow management module)
- Outsourcing of KYC/KYB to Romania (10 analysts)
- Conducting Compliance audits (PCI-DSS, Payment Schemes and Thresholds, Data quality, Closure of inactive or fictitious information accounts, ...)
- Communication (via Mailchimp) and follow-up with Lemon Way partners on necessary compliance actions
- Legal monitoring (KYC, AML/CFT, Internal Control, GDPR, ...)
- Writing procedures
- Member of the Data Protection Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee