Orrick attorneys discuss concerns around data protection and privacy, best practices for state licensing challenges, insights on legislation and requirements, recent fair lending cases, and more.

Jeff Naimon discussed the Department of Justice and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s interagency redlining initiative, and Sasha Leonhardt discussed what the Biden administration’s recent announcement of broad-based federal student loan forgiveness may mean.

Max Bonici discussed challenges facing financial institutions and fintechs that offer crypto and other digital asset products, and Sasha Leonhardt discussed the legal structure surrounding appraisal bias, and recent enforcement actions.

Orrick is proud to sponsor Infocast's 2022 Hydrogen Hubs: Building a Value Chain Summit. Blake Winburne will be moderating a summit panel on Tuesday, September 13, titled, “Raising Capital for Hydrogen Projects: The Financial Community’s Perspectives.” Panelists will include Sriram (“Sri”) ...

Hank Asbill joined a panel of experts to discuss issues that arise when clients want to present untrue or ethically challenged evidence at sentencing from the prosecution and defense perspective.

John Coleman joined a roundtable and discussed four administrative law topics: the future of Chevron, agency deference in the states, vaccines in the early republic, and the future of agency adjudication.

Katy Ryan and Jedd Bellman discussed steps to develop and maintain strong governance practices, sound compliance management systems, and financial practices that result in stable operations and garner sufficient capital and liquidity.

Kathryn Ryan led members in a conversation at this annual conference that provided state regulators and industry representatives the opportunity to meet with their peers from around the country, share information and best practices, and discuss current topics in the industry.

Jedd Bellman joined a panel of experts to discuss the CFPB’s new advisory opinion on additional collection fees as well as the growing anti-CFPB sentiment in the financial services industry.

Jerry Buckley, a key advocate in the passage of the federal ESIGN Act, commemorated the act’s 22nd anniversary with the Electronic Signature & Records Association by providing insight into the history and future of electronic records.

Orrick & NVCA webinar (post-event)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau earlier this year claimed a new tool to prevent discrimination in financial services by examining institutions for conduct that, while potentially falling outside the ambit of traditional fair lending laws, was nonetheless “unfair.”