Welcome, Ben Schneider!

In Q1 2026 we welcomed three new Klaros partners to lead key growth practices: Doug Landy (stablecoins), Seth Ross (go-to-market strategies and product development), and Erin Allard (bank building and scaling).

I’m excited to kick off Q2 by welcoming another partner - Ben Schneider, who joins us today as General Counsel. 

Ben joins us 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.

Ben brings us a unique combination of experience and expertise drawn from practicing law during the global financial crisis, serving as a bank regulator during fintech’s infancy, and as a fintech general counsel as fintech matured. I’m excited to see what he can do for Klaros and for our clients. If you have a challenge Ben can help with, reach him at ben@klarosgroup.com.