I am passionate about helping the next generation of financial services innovators differentiate with compliance by design.

Sam Holt

Senior Manager, Financial Services Risk Management, Ernst & Young LLP

Emerging leader focused on risk-managed innovation in financial services. Husband. Fisherman. Golfer. Wine enthusiast.

Sam is a senior manager in the Regulatory Compliance and Conduct practice, with more than eight years of experience supporting community banks, FinTechs, cryptocurrency exchanges and other financial institutions with building and maturing their risk management and compliance capabilities to address emerging challenges.

As businesses across the financial services industry continue to innovate through their products, delivery channels and partnerships, Sam supports chief compliance officers and chief risk officers with meeting evolving regulatory expectations and implementing control frameworks commensurate with their risk. Sam has served banks ranging from the smallest community banks to the world’s largest institutions, as well as FinTech startups to globally established payments providers. He also co-leads the US firm’s Banking as a Service (BaaS) risk solutions.

Sam has a BS in Finance and Economics from Santa Clara University.

How Sam is building a better working world

“I am focused on enabling responsible innovation in financial services, having helped clients of all forms and sizes to scale their business in a risk-managed way.

I am proud of the small part I play in enabling innovative, faster, more cost effective, more accessible and more reliable financial services in the market.”

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