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Head of Legal Digital Assets

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We have an excellent opportunity for a Director, Head of Legal Digital Assets to join our Legal team. This is a permanent role, based in London. Join the Legal team to protect Barclays, its employees, and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include risk mitigation, managing strategic transactions, and overseeing business contracts.

Job Responsibility:

  • Provide expert legal support for digital assets and digital money initiatives, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies while enabling innovation in a regulated environment
  • Work closely with Group Strategy to help shape and develop Barclays’ overall strategy for digital assets, embedding legal considerations into strategic planning and execution
  • Act as principal legal adviser on digital asset frameworks, business models, and technology solutions, collaborating across functions to influence strategic initiatives
  • Monitor and interpret global regulatory developments, identifying and mitigating legal and reputational risks associated with digital asset activities
  • Lead external advocacy on digital asset regulation and innovation, engaging with policymakers, regulators, trade bodies, and industry stakeholders to influence the regulatory landscape and represent Barclays’ position
  • Develop governance frameworks and internal policies to support digital asset initiatives, ensuring alignment with Barclays’ risk appetite and obligations
  • Deliver training and thought leadership on legal and regulatory issues in digital assets, and represent Barclays in industry forums and cross-functional committees
  • To ensure that the payment activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risks associated with these activities

Requirements:

  • Provide expert legal support for digital assets and digital money initiatives, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies
  • Work closely with Group Strategy to help shape and develop Barclays’ overall strategy for digital assets
  • Act as principal legal adviser on digital asset frameworks, business models, and technology solutions
  • Monitor and interpret global regulatory developments, identifying and mitigating legal and reputational risks
  • Lead external advocacy on digital asset regulation and innovation, engaging with policymakers, regulators, trade bodies, and industry stakeholders
  • Develop governance frameworks and internal policies to support digital asset initiatives
  • Deliver training and thought leadership on legal and regulatory issues in digital assets
  • Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance
  • Legal advice and support to the bank's payments-related activities including merchant acquiring, card issuance, cross currency payments, payment systems and mobile payments
  • Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to payment services
  • Creation and review of legal documents such as payment services agreements, cardholder agreements, and other payment-related agreements
  • Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs)
  • Manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
  • Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
  • Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (LEAD: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others)
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working
  • Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed, ‘anchor’ days
  • Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
  • Commitment to flexible working arrangements
  • International scale offering incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience
  • Chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues
  • Encouragement to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 13, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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