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Stephan Geiger is ESG Lead Financial Services in Switzerland at EY. He started his career in asset management at Man Investments as an internal legal counsel for four years. Before joining EY he was an adviser for four years in the regulatory financial services team of another prominent company advising and partly auditing clients mainly in the asset management sector. At EY he has led a broad array of regulatory transformation projects regarding Swiss and European regulations. He focuses on projects related to corporate governance, compliance and new European regulations in banking and asset management, such as the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, MiFID, FIDLEG, design of compliance management systems, reorganisations, FINMA license applications, compliance cross-border frameworks, and outsourcing, Geiger has also led risk and compliance mapping projects, including overall concept, risk scoping, the implementation of adaption measures and compliance management systems. Geiger holds a law degree from the University of Bern and a Master of Law (LLM) in international business law specialising in banking and insurance law from Zurich.

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