Zach Masum


Zach leads BCSC’s Fintech and Innovation Team (FIT), which handles a broad spectrum of fintech-related matters including DeFi, AI/machine learning, DLT, robo-advising, crowdfinancing, online trading and other technology-focused business models. As the BCSC’s Manager, Legal Services (Capital Markets Regulation) Zach also manages a team of lawyers and professionals working on a broad variety of other matters including registration matters; marketplace, exchange and trading issues; oversight of self-regulatory organizations and marketplace infrastructure; conduct of dealers, advisers and investment fund managers; and other issues impacting capital markets. Zach is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has been working for 19 years in private practice, in-house financial sector and government legal roles.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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