# Head of Compliance: Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) at OKX > Location unclear · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aokx%3A7984392003 (read 2026-11-06). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [OKX](https://alderhq.app/companies/okx) - Location text: EMEA; EMEA - Where it can be done from (inferred): Location unclear (evidence: "Location: EMEA; EMEA") - Posted: 2026-09-02 (65 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okx/jobs/7984392003 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted ## Description (the employer's text) Reports to: Regional Head of Compliance, EMEA (with matrix reporting to the OEM Board and Global Compliance) Regulator: Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) ### About the Team The compliance function at OKX is responsible for the overall compliance culture at the company. We are a team of risk-minded problem solvers who advise the business on the company's AML and regulatory obligations and enterprise risks. OKX Europe Markets Limited is our MFSA-authorised investment services entity. Its licence covers the operation of a multilateral trading facility alongside our MiFID derivatives business. Operating a trading venue puts a distinct set of obligations on the firm: venue rulebook governance, member admission, market surveillance, transparency and reporting, systems resilience and orderly trading controls. This role owns compliance for that venue. ### What You Will Be Doing As Head of Compliance for the MTF, you will hold the MiFID compliance function for the trading venue and act as the MFSA-approved person for that role. The MLRO function sits separately; you will work alongside the OEM MLRO on financial crime matters that touch venue activity. You will: - Own the MTF compliance framework end to end: policies, procedures, controls, registers and the compliance monitoring programme covering MiFID II, MiFIR, MAR and the MFSA Investment Services Rules applicable to MTF operators. - Act as the primary compliance point of contact for the MFSA on venue matters: authorisation variations, notifications, thematic reviews, RFIs, inspections and remediation. - Own the venue rulebook. Keep it current, ensure it is enforceable, and run the governance process for changes. - Oversee member and participant admission: eligibility criteria, non-discriminatory access, direct electronic access arrangements, sponsored access controls, and ongoing monitoring of members' compliance with the rules of the venue. - Oversee admission to trading of financial instruments, including the compliance assessment of new instruments, product classes and tokenised or DLT-based instruments where relevant. - Provide compliance oversight of orderly trading requirements: systems capacity and resilience, testing of members' algorithms, circuit breakers, order-to-trade ratios, tick sizes, market making schemes and clock synchronisation. - Provide compliance oversight of pre- and post-trade transparency, waivers and deferrals, transaction reporting, reference data and the accuracy and completeness controls behind them. - Advise the business on the interaction between the MTF and OKX's wider European footprint: the MiFID derivatives business, MiCA-authorised activity in OKX Europe Ltd, and the DLT Pilot Regime where a DLT MTF is in scope. - Deliver the annual compliance risk assessment, the compliance monitoring plan and the compliance report to senior management and the Board. - Build, lead and develop the MTF compliance team, and set the compliance training curriculum for venue-facing staff, trading operations and technology. - Give day-to-day advice to product, engineering, trading operations, legal and market operations in a fast-moving regulatory environment, including sign-off on venue changes, launches and marketing where required. - Oversee compliance aspects of outsourcing, critical third parties and operational resilience, including DORA obligations relevant to the venue. - Prepare Board, committee and matrix stakeholder reporting, and represent OKX with the MFSA, ESMA consultations, industry bodies and peer venue forums. ### What We Look For in You - 10 years plus in regulatory compliance within financial services, market infrastructure, fintech or crypto, including time at a senior or head-of-function level. - Direct experience of trading venue compliance: MTF, OTF, regulated market, SI or an equivalent execution venue. This is the core requirement. - Working knowledge of MiFID II and MiFIR as they apply to venue operators: Articles 18–20 and 31 (MTF operating requirements and rule monitoring), Articles 48–50 (orderly trading), MiFIR transparency and transaction reporting, and the associated RTS. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aokx%3A7984392003 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.