Elisabeth Craig

Elisabeth Craig is senior vice president of FINRA’s Credentialing, Registration, Education and Disclosure (CRED) department. In this role, she leads FINRA’s registration, disclosure, testing and continuing education programs for the securities industry, including overseeing the Central Registration Depository, BrokerCheck and CE Online.

Before joining FINRA in February 2019, Ms. Craig served as counsel at DCS Advisory, an investment banking firm with multiple offices throughout the U.S. Ms. Craig focused on all aspects of legal and compliance matters impacting the firm, which is a registered broker-dealer. Prior to joining DCS Advisory, Ms. Craig held a number of senior positions at Legg Mason in Baltimore, Maryland, including in Corporate Legal, where she focused on public company reporting issues, corporate governance and worked directly with the company’s independent board of directors; Global Compliance, where she was responsible for corporate compliance and regulatory affairs; and Regulatory Affairs, where she oversaw the regulatory affairs and licensing and registration departments of the company’s former retail broker-dealer subsidiary. Ms. Craig also worked for Allfirst Bank in Baltimore, Maryland, where she served as the chief compliance officer and brokerage counsel. Before working in-house, Ms. Craig worked in private practice in the Baltimore office of Saul Ewing, LLP, where she was an associate in the securities litigation group. 

Ms. Craig received her Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Skidmore College.