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Financial regulation will change more over the next decade than it has in the last 50 years. How will technological innovation – including the adoption of machine learning, generative AI, digital currencies, and other fintech solutions – shape financial regulation for the digital economy? Orrick's Jerry Buckley is joined by Sasha Leonhardt, Sherry Safchuk, and Caroline Stapleton in hosting conversations with leading thinkers at the forefront of these changes, including regulators, legislators, financial services providers, data scientists, academics, opinion makers, consumer advocates and other market participants.
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Representative Bill Huizenga's draft bill to modernize the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act could mark the most significant overhaul of U.S. financial privacy regulation in more than two decades. In this episode of RegFi, co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk examine how the proposal would reshape the federal-state balance through broad preemption, introduce new data minimization standards, and expand consumer rights around access and deletion. They also explore the bill's treatment of financial data aggregators, evolving expectations for AI disclosures, and the operational challenges institutions may face. Links: House Financial Services Committee Discussion Draft Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Kelvin Chen, Senior Executive Vice President and Head of Policy at the Consumer Bankers Association, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss CBA's recent white paper on agentic AI and its implications for consumer payments and financial regulation. The conversation focuses on how existing frameworks like the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E apply in an AI-enabled environment, where gaps may emerge around authorization and liability, and how the broader $18.8 trillion consumer finance industry could approach integrating existing consumer protections into an agentic AI environment. Links: Consumer Bankers Association Agentic AI Payments: Navigating Consumer Protection, Innovation, and Regulatory Frameworks (Whitepaper) Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Orrick's Nathaniel Reisenburg joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss the newly proposed regulatory framework for payment stablecoins released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency pursuant to the GENIUS Act. The conversation examines the proposal's requirements for reserves, redemption rights, capital and supervision, as well as the Act's prohibition on issuer-paid interest or yield. The episode also explores the policy goals behind stablecoin regulation and what current and prospective issuers should be doing now as the rulemaking process moves forward. Links: OCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking | GENIUS Act Regulations OCC Proposes Rule to Implement the GENIUS Act (Orrick Insight) RegFi Episode 75: GENIUS Act Implications for Banks and Stablecoin Issuers RegFi Episode 71: GENIUS Act: Establishing a Federal Regulatory Framework for Stablecoins RegFi Episode 67: Stablecoins: The GENIUS Act Explained Orrick Blockchain & Digital Assets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Lucas Moskowitz, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Robinhood Markets, Inc., joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to discuss innovations in financial regulation that Robinhood is pioneering and advocating. The conversation explores the rapid expansion of prediction markets, modifying "accredited investor" requirements to include more retail investors, expanding access to private markets for retail investors, tokenization of securities, as well as the rationale for the Clarity Act and its prospects for passage. Links: Robinhood Markets RegFi Episode 89: Event-Based Derivatives and the Future of Prediction Markets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Orrick partner Dan Ullman joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt for a timely discussion of the legal and regulatory battles surrounding prediction markets. The conversation explores the CFTC's jurisdiction, the legal framework governing event contracts, the controversy over sports-related markets and the possibility that the Supreme Court may ultimately weigh in. Links: Orrick Blockchain & Digital Assets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
David Silberman joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to explore how artificial intelligence — including agentic AI — could reshape consumers' interactions with financial services providers. The conversation considers how the current consumer financial protection regulatory regime — built in and for a paper-based world — might need to be adjusted to serve the new and evolving digital financial services marketplace. Links: Center for Responsible Lending Financial Health Network Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
As the student loan landscape shifts in 2026, American Fintech Council Chief Policy Officer Ian Moloney joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to explore the profound changes facing students, families, colleges and private student lenders. With the federal government scaling back its role, lenders will be presented with new opportunities and challenges as they navigate evolving federal student loan policies and a changing market. Links: American Fintech Council Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Nadim Homsany, Head of AI Strategy and Innovation at Boeing Employees Credit Union, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to discuss how BECU is developing agentic AI tools designed to help members optimize borrowing and investment decisions. The conversation explores how these emerging technologies would expand access to sophisticated financial management services — long available to only the wealthiest Americans — to all BECU members. Links: BECU Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Chris Hilliard, CEO of Winnow Solutions, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk for an in-depth discussion on how AI is transforming regulatory intelligence in financial services. The conversation explores the shift from reactive, document-driven compliance to more proactive, insight-driven approaches, the importance of curated data in reducing AI hallucinations, and how AI can help compliance teams manage regulatory expectations across state and federal regimes. Links: Winnow Solutions, LLC Orrick AI Law Center Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Orrick's James Chou joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk for a wide-ranging discussion on how cyber risk is evolving for financial services providers. The conversation explores the growing sophistication of nation-state and criminal cyber threats, increasing regulatory expectations across federal and state regimes, and the operational realities of responding to cyber incidents and ransomware attacks. The episode also looks ahead to emerging risks associated with quantum computing and the steps financial institutions can take today to begin planning for a post-quantum environment. Links: RegFi Episode 28: Preparing Financial Systems for Post-Quantum Cyber Risk Orrick Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Doyle Bartlett, founder of Eris Group, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to discuss the packed financial services policy agenda for 2026. The conversation examines what lies ahead as stablecoin regulations are rolled out, the Clarity Act wends its way through Congress, new types of bank charters are being crafted, and the administration seeks to reign in 1,200 proposed state AI laws. Links: Eris Group Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Orrick partner Walt Zalenski joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton for a conversation that explores how bank-fintech partnerships work, the legal and regulatory challenges they face, and how the proposed Bank-Fintech Partnership Enhancement Act could help create a regulatory environment that fosters innovation. Links: Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
In this year-end episode of RegFi, co-hosts Jerry Buckley, Sasha Leonhardt, Sherry Safchuk and Caroline Stapleton take stock of how momentous changes in financial regulation and technology in 2025 set the stage for more of the same in 2026. The conversation covers the uncertain future of the CFPB, the growing role of state regulators, accelerating AI regulation, implementation of the GENIUS Act, leadership changes across federal agencies and emerging themes in bank chartering and crypto oversight. Links: Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
In this follow-up conversation, RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt welcome back Dan Ullman, Orrick partner and former CFTC Chief Trial Attorney, to unpack Congress's most consequential digital-asset proposal to date: the Clarity Act. Building on last week's discussion of the CFTC's agenda, Dan breaks down how the Clarity Act would establish the first comprehensive federal regulatory structure for digital assets — shifting most oversight to the CFTC, reshaping the agency's mandate and setting in motion an extensive rulemaking effort reminiscent of the post-Dodd-Frank swaps regime. Links: RegFi Episode 79: Inside the CFTC: Priorities, Leadership and What Comes Next Clarity Act Coming Into Focus (Orrick Insight) Orrick Blockchain & Digital Assets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
In this episode, Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt sit down with Orrick partner Dan Ullman, former Associate Director and Chief Trial Attorney at the CFTC, for an insider's look at what's shaping the agency's agenda. Dan discusses how the Commission is approaching digital asset innovation, the evolving interplay between SEC and CFTC authority, ongoing litigation around sports-related prediction markets, and what a more centralized federal regulatory model could mean for market participants. Links: Orrick Blockchain & Digital Assets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Agentic AI is moving from theory to real-world deployment in financial services, bringing both extraordinary potential and complex regulatory questions. FinRegLab Founder and CEO Melissa Koide joins Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to break down what makes agentic AI different from traditional and generative models, where the most compelling use cases are taking shape, and how the technology could reshape consumer financial health, operational risk management, and long-standing regulatory frameworks. Links: FinRegLab Website FinRegLab Report: "The Next Wave Arrives: Agentic AI and Financial Services" Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Sarah Schaedler, Global Chair of Orrick's Technology Transactions Group, joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to discuss how companies are operationalizing AI amid rapidly evolving technology and policy landscapes. Rather than waiting to see how AI adoption will unfold, companies are moving forward with implementation. This episode offers practical guidance on how parties are allocating responsibility for both the functionality of AI systems and compliance with emerging legal and regulatory requirements. Links: Orrick AI Law Center Orrick Technology Transactions Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
The EU's landmark Data Act took effect on Sept. 12, 2025, reshaping how customer data can be accessed, shared and monetized across the European digital economy. Orrick partners Christian Schröder and Julia Apostle join RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt to unpack what the law means for global businesses operating in Europe. The group discusses how the Act interacts with the GDPR, new rights for users and third parties, obligations for manufacturers and cloud providers, and the compliance and revenue implications of data-sharing and switching obligations. The conversation also explores the opportunities the Act creates for innovation and competition in the data economy. Links: "The EU Data Act is in Force — What Should Businesses Do?" (Orrick Insight) Orrick Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Georgia State law professor Todd Phillips joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Caroline Stapleton to break down the newly enacted GENIUS Act framework for payment stablecoins. The conversation explores whether regulators will curb "yield-evasion," how capital and BSA/AML expectations could apply to secondary-market transfers and why tokenized deposits may offer banks a cleaner path than issuing stablecoins themselves. Links: U.S. Treasury RFI on Payment Stablecoins Orrick Blockchain & Digital Assets Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
Orrick partner Shannon Yavorsky — head of the firm's Global Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation group and co-lead of the AI practice — joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk to unpack newly approved California Consumer Privacy Act regulations. The conversation offers insights into the definitions and requirements for automated decision-making technology (ADMT), risk assessments, and cybersecurity audits, as well as open questions surrounding GLBA data carve-outs for financial services, and the reasons behind California's shift from defining "AI" to regulating ADMT use cases. Links: Orrick AI Law Center Orrick Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Orrick Financial & Fintech Advisory RegFiPodcast.com
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