Alan Ainsworth

Executive Director, Policy, Innovation and Marketing & Communications

Alan Ainsworth has been executive director of policy, innovation and marketing and communications at the Jersey Financial Services Commission since August 2024, with overall responsibility for developing and maintaining the island's financial services regulatory framework and for local and international stakeholder engagement, and oversight of the commission's Innovation Hub, which advises on the development of innovative practices in Jersey's financial services industry. He brings more than thirty years of experience in banking, payments and fintech: he spent six years as strategy, policy and standards director at Open Banking Limited in the United Kingdom and more recently was open finance lead at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, and before that led government relations for Barclays and Barclaycard's consumer and payments businesses for over a decade.