Jo Ann Barefoot, founder and CEO of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR), and Kabir Kumar, partner at Flourish Ventures, join co-hosts Jerry Buckley, Sasha Leonhardt and Sherry Safchuk for a special RegFi episode...more
RegFi Co-Hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt welcome Orrick partner Behnam Dayanim to explore the applications of blockchain in financial services, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and decentralized finance. The...more
Ian P. Moloney, Head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at the American Fintech Council, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk for a conversation about earned wage access (EWA), a service that affords workers...more
The Klaros Group’s Michele Alt joins Orrick partners Jerry Buckley, Caroline Stapleton and Walt Zalenski to explore actions needed to facilitate new bank formations, which have slowed to trickle in recent years. The...more
3/13/2025
/ Banking Sector ,
Business Formation ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Innovation ,
OCC ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Startups
Justin Wiseman, Vice President and Regulatory Counsel at the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk to discuss how housing availability and affordability have moved to the...more
3/13/2025
/ Affordable Housing ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
GSE ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
RESPA
Jane Barratt, Financial Data Exchange (FDX) co-board chair, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to share the role FDX will play as the first standard setting organization (SSO) approved by the CFPB pursuant...more
At no time in recent memory has consumer finance regulation faced more prospects for change. RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley, Sasha Leonhardt, Sherry Safchuk and Caroline Stapleton discuss what could be in play for consumer...more
RegFi Co-Hosts Jerry Buckley, Sherry Safchuk and Sasha Leonhardt explore the implications of the CFPB’s recently proposed amendments to Regulation V that would apply the Fair Credit Reporting Act to data brokers. The...more
Brandon Milhorn, President and CEO of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, joins RegFi co-hosts Sherry Safchuk and Jerry Buckley to share his perspective on the challenges facing community banks and the role of...more
Hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk sit down with Susan Milazzo, the CEO of the California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA), to discuss the current state and future of mortgage banking in California. As the voice of the...more
Alex Acree, Chief Legal Officer at Unit, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to explore the role that a financial services infrastructure company can play in the evolving delivery of financial services...more
David Birch, an internationally recognized thought leader in digital identity and digital money, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss the evolution of financial services in the metaverse, the...more
RegFi hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt welcome Tom Brown, Partner and General Counsel at Nyca Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in fintechs. Tom provides a critical analysis of the current financial...more
Kabir Kumar, director of policy and ecosystem building at Flourish Ventures, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to explore the fundamental role of technology in expanding access to fair and stable...more
RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton welcome podcast guest Tracy Basinger, former head of supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a senior advisor at the Klaros Group. Tracy brings a unique...more
Bob Broeksmit, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss the transformative impact of technology on the mortgage industry. Bob highlights the...more
The FUTURES Act, a bipartisan legislative initiative recently reported by the House Financial Services Committee as part of a larger financial institutions legislative package, aims to foster technological modernization...more
Kate Flocken, a principal at FS Vector, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to discuss the increased scrutiny from Congress and regulatory bodies in response to the rapid growth of fintechs, from niche...more
We have something a little different for this week’s episode. RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton recently joined the latest installment of the American Fintech Council’s Future of Finance Webinar Series. The...more
Not all of our listeners will be familiar with the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, but pending litigation on state DIDMCA opt outs could upend the bank partnership models employed by...more
RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt in 2020 collaborated with the Alliance for Innovation and Regulation (AIR) to author a report titled “Financial Regulators’ Dilemma: Administrative and Regulatory Hurdles to...more
In our latest look at the CFPB’s expanding supervisory authority of fintechs and other non-bank financial service providers, RegFi cohosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt welcome fellow Orrick partner — and former deputy...more
Rick Bueno, the president and CEO of Cyber Reliant Corp, joins RegFi cohosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to share his insights about post-quantum cyber risk. Rick explains how the exponential difference in computing...more
Jerry Comizio joins RegFi cohosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk for a conversation about the intricate world of virtual currencies. Professor Comizio is Associate Director of the Business Law Program at American...more
3/28/2024
/ Blockchain ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FinTech ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Virtual Currency
Nick Cook joins RegFi cohosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt for a conversation about how regulators globally are approaching technological innovation, both in the markets they supervise and within their own operations....more