# Leo Patching

> Leo Patching is a serial fintech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Kompliant, a compliance orchestration platform for banks, payment facilitators, and financial institutions that was acquired by LegitScript in October 2025. With a track record spanning from solar energy to payments infrastructure, Patching has built a career around turning regulation into a competitive advantage - arguing that compliance is not a cost center but a growth engine for the modern financial services industry.

- **Role:** CEO, Kompliant at LegitScript
- **Organizations:** LegitScript, Kompliant, Falcon Fulfillment, Freetricity
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** BA, International Relations & Economics, University of Westminster
- **Known for:** Co-founded Kompliant, acquired by LegitScript in October 2025, Led Digitzs as CEO/co-founder from 2017 to 2021, building API-driven payments infrastructure for SaaS businesses, Kompliant recognized by Electronic Transactions Association at TRANSACT 2025 as one of most innovative products in payments

## Career timeline

- **2011-2012** — Interim CEO, DT3 Ltd (acquired by Symantec)
- **2012-2015** — CEO, Freetricity PLC - led solar energy company
- **2012** — Joined Freetricity board; began long-term advisory role
- **2015-2017** — Partner, PGC Group
- **2016** — Became Chairman of Falcon Fulfillment
- **2017-2021** — Co-Founder & CEO, Digitzs - built API-driven payment solutions for SaaS businesses and marketplaces
- **2021** — Co-founded Kompliant as President & Co-Founder
- **2023** — Became CEO of Kompliant
- **2024** — Kompliant named to FinTech Global DataTech50 list
- **2025** — Kompliant wins ETA TRANSACT 2025 award for most innovative payments product
- **2025-10** — LegitScript acquires Kompliant; Patching continues as CEO of Kompliant division

## Achievements

- Co-founded Kompliant, acquired by LegitScript in October 2025
- Led Digitzs as CEO/co-founder from 2017 to 2021, building API-driven payments infrastructure for SaaS businesses
- Kompliant recognized by Electronic Transactions Association at TRANSACT 2025 as one of most innovative products in payments
- Kompliant named to FinTech Global DataTech50 2025 list for innovation in financial services data management
- Kompliant-Equifax white paper reached 500 financial leaders on compliance technology ROI
- Successfully led DT3 through acquisition by Symantec as interim CEO
- Contributor and thought leader at Corporate Compliance Insights on CFPB and BNPL regulation

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — LegitScript acquires Kompliant; Leo Patching continues as CEO of the Kompliant division, integrating the platform with LegitScript's merchant risk data and certification capabilities.
- **2025-04** — Kompliant recognized by the Electronic Transactions Association at TRANSACT 2025 as one of the most innovative products in the payments ecosystem.
- **2025-01** — Kompliant named to FinTech Global's DataTech50 list for 2025.
- **2024-09** — Leo Patching publishes analysis on CFPB BNPL rule implications for short-term lenders in Corporate Compliance Insights.

## Links

- Website: https://www.kompliant.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leopatching

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Last updated: 2026-05-16