Marco Zechini is equity partner of Alma, based in Rome where he coordinated the Banking and Financial Regulation practice.

He is specialized in regulation of financial intermediaries and technology law, with twenty years of experience in all regulatory and organizational aspects related to banking and financial services. He is also a recognized expert in the Fintech sector.

With a solid corporate background, Marco handles sophisticated corporate transactions providing assistance in all legal, regulatory and organizational aspects related to payment and investment services, with particular focus on the Consolidated Law on Finance and in the field of investment and structuring of public offers for sale and subscription.

Marco regularly assists banks, financial companies, payment institutions, IMELs, EU investment companies, asset management companies, SIM and SGR in the authorization procedures (before Bank of Italy and Consob) and the management of relations with the supervisory authorities. He advises on the structuring of new services and products and provides legal and regulatory assistance, both on the arranger and originator side, as part of securitization transactions, providing support on administrative sanctions proceedings, ad interim measures and sanctions related to the provisions of banking, financial, investment and insurance services.

He also has extensive experience in the context of outsourcing contracts of operational functions such as the outsourcing of IT processes.

Marco is lecturer at the Master of Financial Markets at the same University, as well as a speaker at numerous conferences and lecturer at seminars on financial regulation, e-money and payment services.