Keryn Layton-McCann is a senior associate at Bowmans and works in the Financial Services Regulatory practice group.

Keryn specialises in financial services (including fintech services), securities, investment funds and banking regulations. She regularly advises clients, both local and international, on the application and implications of the various financial sector laws, including but not limited to, the Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017 and the Financial Markets Act, 2012.

Keryn regularly advises clients such as financial service providers, fund managers, payment service providers, fintech service providers, credit providers, credit bureaux and OTC derivatives providers with applications for regulatory registration, licensing, authorisation, approval and exemptions. In addition, Keryn also assists clients with ongoing compliance matters, product distribution and marketing requirements in terms of applicable legislation. She also assists clients with submissions to, and appearances before regulators, such as the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, the National Credit Regulator and the Prudential Authority.

Before joining Bowmans, Keryn worked in London and New York in the financial services industry for 12 years.  Her previous experience centered around working with multinational corporate and institutional clients to find commercially sound hedging strategies to commodities exposure, more specifically, base and precious metals.