- Wednesday, 10th December 2025
Navigating Privacy in Fintech
Join us for a focused webinar on
how fintechs can turn privacy into a real competitive advantage.
We’ll explore the most common privacy mistakes early-stage teams make, how to balance speed and innovation with compliance, and why investors and partners are increasingly demanding “privacy-ready” products.
From Salv’s regtech perspective, we’ll discuss the biggest challenges fintechs face today — from GDPR and data sharing for fraud prevention to the impact of the AI Act on product development. You’ll learn how privacy can strengthen trust, unlock partnerships, and support scalable growth.
We’ll wrap up with one practical takeaway every fintech founder and product leader should apply when building privacy-ready products in 2025.
Perfect for fintech teams, founders, product, legal, and compliance leaders.
We'll always open up the floor for Q&A at the end, come prepared with questions!
3 Key Takeaways:
What You’ll Learn from this Webinar
Turn privacy into a competitive edge
Learn how fintechs can use strong privacy practices to build trust, unlock partnerships, and gain an advantage in a crowded market.
Avoid the most common early-stage mistakes
We’ll cover the privacy pitfalls startups repeatedly fall into — and how to stay compliant without slowing innovation or product velocity.
Balance speed, innovation, and compliance
See how fast-moving fintech teams can build quickly while still meeting regulatory requirements and investor expectations.
Real challenges from a regtech perspective
Hear Salv’s insights on GDPR, data sharing for fraud prevention, and how the AI Act will impact product and engineering decisions in 2025.
One practical takeaway for every fintech leader
Walk away with a clear, actionable step founders, product teams, and compliance leads can apply immediately when building privacy-ready products.
Year-1 reality → Year-2 actions
What actually tripped teams up (risk tiers, docs, oversight) and the 3 fixes to implement now.
De-risk your AI stack end-to-end
A practical approach to vendor due diligence, GDPR overlap, and model-level controls that holds up under scrutiny.
Governance that ships, not stops
A lightweight operating model (roles, checks, audit trail) so product teams can move fast and stay AI-Act ready.
Speakers
Diana Karyan
Legal Counsel
Salv
Diana Karyan is Legal Counsel at Salv, bringing hands-on expertise in regulatory, privacy and fintech environments.
With a background in corporate, business and ICT law, Diana combines legal acumen with a practical mindset for innovation-driven teams.
Her experience advising early-stage and regulated businesses makes her an excellent voice on how to build privacy-ready products, especially in the fintech/regtech space.
Krete Paal
CEO
GDPR Register
Krete Paal is the CEO of GDPR Register, where she drives the development of AI-powered tools that simplify and scale privacy compliance for organisations across Europe.
With a strong background in data protection and legal tech — including leading Veriff’s DPO Office and earlier experience with the Estonian Police and Border Guard — she combines regulatory expertise with hands-on product leadership.
Through GDPR Register, she brings a forward-looking perspective on how AI can support GDPR compliance and align with emerging regulations, helping companies turn complex requirements into actionable and efficient workflows.
What time?
- 12:00 GMT
- 13:00 CET
- 14:00 EET
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We host these webinars to bring real-world privacy and compliance challenges closer to practitioners, helping them turn complex regulations into practical, day-to-day strategies.
We open up the floor for Q&A at the end to answer participants questions to explore the session participants challenges as well. Get involved!
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Bridge the gap between Legal and Product
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