Silvia Calls BIO :
Silvia is an enthusiastic and experience fintech lawyer and entrepreneur. As a fintech entrepreneur and owner of www.abogadosfintech.com – a legal firm focused on fintech startups – she has acquired a 360 overview on tech, business, operational process and customer needs. As such, her experience includes building finance software and business models, preparing financial plans, and dealing with investors.
She launched www.abogadosfintech.com and works there as a fintech lawyer since 2017.
And of course, she also has more than a decade of experience in fintech regulation, ranging from tasks like issuing Banking license and dealing with regulators up to advising on all legal areas related to commercial contracts, payments lending, PSD2, GDPR, AML/KYC, etc.
In total, Silvia has accumulated over 15 years of experience as a legal professional, including 10+ years in the fintech industry. She has founded smartcredit.es, a regulated Crowdfunding entity nº registration 24 at CNMV. Her career spans positions as Legal Director at UK fintech Wonga, Head of Legal and Compliance at Barcelona fintech Prestamos Prima Group as well as at US FinTech Reloadly. Before that, she also worked at BBVA (Formerly CatalunyaCaixa), Circulo Legal.
On the academic side, Silvia first studied Law at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and completed further educational master in business management PDG at EADA Business School, a Master in mediation, master in digital marketing and management. Eventually, her vast experience enabled her to go from student to teacher, so she has been helping several people as a business mentor at fintech incubator and accelerator Tenity (formerly F10) and as a professor at Institut d’Estudis Financers, LaSalleTechNova, and ESADE