Simon Jensen

Background

About Simon Jensen

Please email me at simon.jensen@buddlefindlay.com /+64 27 447 6412 / View my Buddle Findlay website profile. I specialise in financial sector regulation, payments and clearing systems, managing complex multi disciplinary projects and advice for financial institutions. I have over 25 years' experience in the payments sector and am regarded as New Zealand's most experienced payments lawyer. I also provide specialist regulatory, corporate and governance advice to most of New Zealand's banks, the Crown, Payments NZ, credit card companies, large global entertainment and IT companies, infrastructure companies, finance companies, entrepreneurs, offshore banks and foreign governments. I have also advised on access to payment systems, designation of payment systems, mobile payments, cryptocurrencies, domestic debit, credit card interchange, payment gateways, merchant acquiring arrangements (global and domestic), interest rate setting agreements and market maker agreements for currencies and equities. I am an editor of Tyree's Banking Law in New Zealand 3rd edition. I am currently President of the Banking and Finance Law Association. I have chaired sessions and have spoken at conferences on banking regulation including on the impact of Basel on New Zealand banks and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's policy for resolving bank failure – the Open Bank Resolution policy. I have had a number of papers published including: • Steigrad v Bridgecorp: The Supreme Court Decision - Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, March 2014 • Co-contributing author to the New Zealand chapter of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practices, June 2013 • Corporate governance and directors' duties in New Zealand: Overview - Co-contributing author – Practical Law, February 2013 • Managing insolvency risk in New Zealand's settlement before interchange payment system - Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, June 2012