Anna Carrier, Senior Government and Regulatory Affairs Advisor, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Anna is a lawyer in the Norton Rose Fulbright financial services regulatory and public policy practices. Based in Brussels, she advises clients on a range of European legislative, regulatory and policy matters. She specialises in banking and financial services legislation, with particular focus on securities and derivatives markets, benchmarks, prudential regulation, asset management and FinTech. Her clients include banks, major international financial market infrastructure operators, asset managers, benchmark administrators, investment firms as well as agriculture, energy and technology companies, international financial institutions and industry associations.
Anna assists clients in all stages of the legislative process, from preparatory work preceding publication of legislative proposals, through the legislative review of basic legislative texts, the development of secondary legislation and guidance, to implementation. She has advised clients on complex matters relating to the implementation of EMIR, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II / MiFIR), the European Benchmarks Regulation (BMR), the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation (CRD IV / CRR) and other legislative and regulatory initiatives. Anna also helps clients in managing their liaisons with and submissions to European institutions, national public authorities and international standard-setting bodies.
Anna joined Norton Rose Fulbright from a major derivatives marketplace where she was responsible for EU regulatory strategy, government relations and engagement with major trade associations representing banking, asset management, hedge funds, proprietary traders and commodities houses. She was previously an account director at a Brussels-based public affairs consultancy and began her career at the European Parliament.