Andrea Beatty

Andrea specialises in financial services, banking and corporate law.

Andrea brings legal capability and insight into regulatory matters, corporate governance, compliance and risk management. She assists her clients to adapt to the changing regulatory landscape to ensure they meet the expectations of their customers and shareholders and regulators.

Andrea’s expertise extends to designing and conducting a broad range of financial services training for financial services providers, their senior executives and responsible managers, legal & compliance officers, consumer advocates and lawyers.

Andrea advises domestic and foreign institutions on acquiring financial services and credit licences and exemptions. She specialises in advising on structuring and establishing financial services and credit businesses including licence obligations, drafting plain English documents, procedures, systems audits and online web application processes. She also advises on regulatory compliance projects and audits, regulatory enforcement defences, and regulator investigations and disputes.

Andrea’s experience includes advising clients on financial products and channels, including FinTech solutions, peer to peer lending platforms, crowd funding, payment systems, crypto currency, reward programs, gift cards and financial services acquisitions, disposals and alliances.

Andrea also has in-depth knowledge of privacy laws and regularly advises clients on data and privacy security and breach remediation.

Andrea has been appointed an AUSTRAC authorised external AML/CTF auditor, regularly developing and conducting independent reviews of AML/CTF programs.

Andrea regularly conducts training programs and full day workshops for clients including Australian Credit Licence and Australian Financial Services Licence compulsory responsible managers training, privacy training, regulatory updates and “Back to Basics” credit law, privacy, anti-money laundering and other training workshops.

Andrea is widely published and her authorships include 6 editions of the leading consumer law text ‘Annotated National Credit Code’ the most recent edition published in November 2019 by LexisNexis, the ‘Australia’ chapters in the ‘Consumer Finance Law Review’ and the ‘Banking Regulation Review‘ (The Law Reviews, Law Business Research Ltd UK).

Andrea is a member of numerous financial services professional associations.