About Rico Benavides

Rico Benavides is a member of the Swedish Bar Association. He has been working on financial regulatory compliance matters since 2014 and at Harvest since 2016. Rico specialises in financial regulation, especially in respect of asset management (UCITS and AIFMD), investment services (MiFID), insurance (IDD) and anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AMLD). He advises foreign and domestic financial companies, including investment firms, fund managers, banks, insurance companies and insurance distributors, on regulatory compliance, representing them before the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. Assignments include applications for authorisation, assistance with implementing new legislation, cross-border business set-ups and corporate/contract law matters. Rico advises some fintech companies providing robo-advice, e-commerce payment or crypto trading services.