Helene Oger-Zaher

Helene is an innovation and payment specialist. She has extensive regulatory experience in the UK and internationally.

She joined the FCA in June 2019 and is a senior manager in the innovation department aiming to support beneficial and responsible innovation in the financial services sector, including through our different sandboxes, innovation pathways and sprints. She also led policy on payments matters, including open banking, fraud and crypto.

Before joining the FCA, she worked at the European Banking Authority, where she developed a number of instruments in the payments space and led the supervisory work with all EU national competent authorities. Prior to that, she worked at the FSA/FCA in a range of roles ranging from supervision to competition and in the industry in compliance roles.

She holds a PhD in law.