Experienced fintech executive has a track record of delivering transformation and innovation

Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in information solutions, software, and services for professionals, has named Lisa Nelson as Chief Executive Officer of its Financial & Corporate Compliance (FCC) division, effective March 31. 

Nelson has more than 25 years’ experience in financial services data analytics and fintech businesses, most recently at Equifax, where she was President, International, leading a $1.4 billion business across 24 countries. Prior to Equifax, she held executive leadership and product management roles at FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) and at FIS (Fidelity Information Services). Her experience ranges from market strategy, product management and sales to regulatory compliance and business operations. Throughout her career, Nelson has driven transformation and growth by advancing cloud technology and product innovation. 

“We are delighted to welcome Lisa Nelson to Wolters Kluwer as the new CEO of our Financial & Corporate Compliance division,” said Nancy McKinstry, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Executive Board for Wolters Kluwer. “Lisa is a seasoned executive with a track record of success. In her new role, she will drive growth in FCC’s expert solutions and services, working side by side with our customers to support their needs in maintaining compliance with ever-changing regulatory requirements.” 

“I am excited to be joining the talented team at Wolters Kluwer Financial & Corporate Compliance and to further build on the division’s extraordinary record of achievement and innovation,” said Nelson. “I look forward to deepening our client and partner collaborations, leveraging the combined strengths of human expertise and leading technologies to help customers streamline their operations, automate workflows, manage risk, and optimize key processes, effectively enabling them to better meet their business and regulatory compliance needs.”   

Reporting to Nelson will be Cathy Wolfe, Executive Vice President and General Manager of FCC Legal Services (CT Corporation), Atul Dubey, recently named Executive Vice President and General Manager of FCC Compliance Solutions, and Dean Sonderegger, recently appointed  Senior Vice President and General Manager of Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting. FCC Compliance Solutions and Finance, Risk & Reporting serve the financial services industry.   

Wolters Kluwer Financial & Corporate Compliance provides financial institutions, corporations, small businesses, and law firms with solutions to help meet regulatory and legal obligations, improve efficiency, and produce better business outcomes.  

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been back in the spotlight, after soaring on the back of Donald Trump’s election, then plummeting back down again before getting another boost when the president fleshed out some details about a proposed US crypto reserve.

The risk of dramatic ups and downs in the market are well known, and investors shouldn’t get into it without realising they could lose everything.

However, it’s not the only risk to be aware of – because even if you make money on crypto, you could be felled by tax.

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If you earned the crypto through work, or made it by mining it, then you could be in the frame for income tax. But if you bought it, the tax to worry about is capital gains tax (CGT).

You’ll need to work out what gain you’ve made. You can pool the cost of the coins you’re selling (assuming they are the same type of coins), considering what you paid for each of them, and then working out an average cost per coin.

Then you can work out the gain by subtracting that from the selling price. It means you need to be certain about what you paid for the coins and how much they have gained in value since then.

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You then need to either pay the capital gains tax immediately, using the real time service, or complete a self-assessment tax return at the end of the tax year.

You might not have to pay tax on all of the gain. If some of the coins you’re disposing of have lost value, you can offset the loss against any gains, but you need to report the loss to HMRC in order to do so.

You can also often subtract the transaction fees – which can be substantial when you sell crypto.

All this means you need to keep good records – including the date of disposal, the pooled costs before and after you disposed of them, the number of tokens you have left, and the value of them. You also need to hang onto bank statements and wallet addresses, because HMRC might ask to see any of these things if they carry out a check on your accounts.

Don’t assume your wallet will be the only record you need, because this isn’t necessarily stored for long. The exchange may not even exist when HMRC comes calling.

To some people this may sound like a real faff, and they may wonder whether they need to bother at all, so it’s worth knowing that HMRC works with the major exchanges and can access your customer information and transaction data.

The autumn budget last year also revealed HMRC would be keeping a closer eye on digital assets. Worldwide crypto activity from the start of 2026 will be reported automatically to the taxman – with the first reports hitting at the end of May 2027.

If you don’t disclose gains and pay the tax that’s due, the authorities can find you through the exchanges and charge tax – and possibly a penalty. Depending on how concerted your efforts to hide the gain, these fines can be really substantial.

It means that if you hold digital coins, and the tax threat has never occurred to you, you’re going to need to spend some serious time getting the paperwork in order.

You may have bought crypto for the excitement of riding the rollercoaster, so the fact it comes with a hefty burden of admin is unlikely to come as a pleasant surprise.

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Sometimes life hands you a case of the blues that can only be cured by watching Ben Affleck line dance while doing his best to convey autism with his facial expressions. When those days come, “The Accountant 2” is the movie for you.

I’m not sure who was clamoring for a sequel to Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 film, which starred Affleck as Christian Wolff, an accountant on the autism spectrum who un-cooks books for criminal organizations while doubling as an action hero with perfect marksmanship and brutal hand-to-hand combat skills. It’s the rare movie that deserves criticism for not focusing enough on the intricacies of accounting, as the idea of Cartels turning to freelancers to solve their financial problems was a lot more interesting than the knockoff Jason Bourne that Christian was eventually turned into. But it told a complete story (some would say “and then some”), leaving most of us content to see Christian ride off into the sunset in his Airstream knowing that he’d keep telling mob bosses which thieves to whack for years to come.

When “The Accountant 2” begins, Christian is still living off the grid. But when Ray King (JK Simmons) — the retired FBI financial crimes boss who identified him in the first place — is murdered, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) knows she needs to bring in The Accountant to finish his last investigation. King’s former protege and blackmail subject who took his job after he retired to a life of private investigating, Medina has never met Wolff face-to-face. But she knows that the only way to contact him is by calling a neurological research center in Hartford and speaking in code to a clueless receptionist, while the real shadow receptionist listens in and uses her army of gifted autistic children to track down the caller’s location and get in touch about booking The Accountant. Sometimes, it really is that simple!

Turns out, Ray had taken a case helping a family of Mexican immigrants find their missing child, who they believed was being held captive in Juarez. Christian agrees to help Medina finish the job, which involves investigating a human trafficking ring that is laundering money through a pizza factory (2016 MAGA conspiracy theorists rejoice!). But when he realizes this job will require more than accounting, he brings in his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) for some extra muscle.

A fast-talking, puppy-loving hitman who appeared in the first film but becomes a true co-lead in the sequel, Braxton is shocked to get a call from his brother. After spending years of his life trying to have a relationship with Christian, he feels incredibly neglected after countless false attempts at connection. He agrees to take the job for his usual rate, but long-simmering tensions and his frustrations with Christian’s inability to show conventional forms of affection soon bubble to the surface.

If there’s one thing “The Accountant 2” deserves credit for, it’s figuring out that an autistic Ben Affleck is simply not enough to carry an action movie on his own. Christian Wolff might actually be one of Affleck’s better acting jobs in recent years, but he works far better as a foil than a leading man. Bernthal shows up with buckets of charm to share the heavy lifting, making Affleck’s accountant seem more sympathetic and competent by comparison. And with the two men enjoying equal time in the spotlight, the film’s moments of levity seem more like brotherly razzing than cruel jabs at a disabled man.

The human trafficking storyline that gives the film its structure is generic bad-guy-of-the-week stuff at best, and it’s hard to get that invested in the fates of a family we’ve never spent any time with just because J.K. Simmons apparently befriended them between movies. That shortcoming almost works in the sequel’s favor, though, as it prevents it from turning into too much of an action movie until the final sequence.

At its heart, “The Accountant 2” is a story of brothers working through their drama through drunken nights at honky tonk bars and deep conversations on the roof of an Airstream. I’m still not convinced this franchise exists for any reason other than Affleck being jealous that Matt Damon won the coin toss to decide who got to play the math genius in “Good Will Hunting,” but it manages to offer more heart and more laughs the second time around.

Grade: C+

“The Accountant 2” premiered at SXSW 2025. Amazon MGM will release it in theaters on Friday, April 25.

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