Mark Compton was formerly the Head of EMEA Markets and Treasury Compliance at the Bank of New York Mellon managing both the Compliance Advisory and Market Surveillance Teams.

Before joining the Bank of New York Mellon in September 2017, Mark Compton was a Partner in the London office of Mayer Brown LLP in the Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice for about 6 years. At Mayer Brown Mark advised a wide range of regulated financial services firms, such as global investment banks, broker dealers, insurers and funds, on UK and EU financial services regulation and on financial crime regulation. Mark also advised corporates in extraction, energy, engineering, pharma and entertainment on financial crime compliance and corporate ethics.

Prior to that Mark worked for BP plc for over six years as the senior financial services and regulatory lawyer to their global financial services and commodity trading division. Mark also spent over five years at the FSA where he worked in the Enforcement Division on market abuse and Listing Rule breaches and in the General Counsel’s Division drafting and negotiating EU financial services Directives and advising on wholesale banking, regulated markets and the Listing Rules.

Before that, Mark trained and practiced general commercial litigation at Slaughter and May.