Michele Alt

Biography

Michelle Alt is a Co-Founder and Partner at Klaros Group. Alt advises banks and fintechs on regulatory issues critical to growth and sustainability, with a focus on aiding fintechs with their U.S. business plans and U.S. bank licensing. Her recent activity follows a long career as a lawyer. She spent 22 years at the OCC as a leader in the Law Department’s Legislative and Regulatory Activities section and as the OCC’s district council in Chicago. Her time there overlapped with the global financial crisis which led her to the forefront of the regulatory space. After the OCC she spent nearly a decade at Promontory Financial Group leading major bank licensing efforts and assisting numerous major banking organizations on a range of Dodd-Frank and Volcker Rule interpretive and implementation matters. In addition to her work at Klaros Group, she also hosts a podcast called “Radically Clear,” where she discusses changes in banking regulation.

Alt received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from Wayne State University.