OUR TEAM

Ben Schneider brings two decades of experience across financial technology, private practice, consulting, and bank regulation.

 

Ben joined Klaros from New York-based consumer banking fintech Current, where, as General Counsel, he led the company’s legal and compliance functions. He oversaw a broad portfolio that included banking and payments regulation, earned wage access and lending frameworks, corporate governance, debt and equity financing, intellectual property, litigation, employment matters, and product counseling, and advised on and negotiated a wide range of fintech partnership agreements.

 

Before returning to the private sector, Ben spent over seven years at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where he held senior roles in the Complex Institution Supervision and Resolutions division. As Assistant Director, he managed teams responsible for implementing and testing compliance with deposit insurance regulations at the largest U.S. banks and, before that, focused on rulemaking and enforcement related to Dodd-Frank and large-bank deposit insurance requirements. Earlier in his career, Ben practiced restructuring and insolvency law at Ropes & Gray LLP and Torys LLP, advising clients in major bankruptcies during the global financial crisis.

 

He holds a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.