OUR TEAM

Roman Goldstein focuses on bank licensing and business planning.

 

Roman joins us from the staff of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where, as Lead Innovation Policy Analyst, he reviewed banks’ plans to engage in novel activities, reviewed foreign bank licensing applications, and developed supervisory policy for BaaS, open banking, and crypto. Before that, he served as an associate general counsel for Coinbase, where he advised the cryptocurrency company on compliance with banking and securities laws. In that capacity, he secured regulatory approvals worth $275M in revenue per year, including first-of-their-kind product approvals, and oversaw licensing for Coinbase Custody Trust Company. Roman has also been a banking lawyer in private practice with Sullivan & Cromwell and spent twelve years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where he was a banking lawyer, a bank examiner specializing in treasury and market risk, and special assistant to the chief counsel, overseeing regulatory approvals for novel securitization and asset management activities.

 

Roman holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.