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ANNOUNCEMENT:
This event has been postponed to a later date . Details will be announced soon.
The Bay Area gets all the love! And while we often hear Seattle, Austin, Cambridge, and New York bandied about as emerging tech hubs, Southern Cali fornia is well on its way to cementing its position among the premier tech communities in the United States.
As the paymen ts/fintech community in SoCal continues to grow steadily, BayPay is pleased to present this event as an opportunity to gather for networking, learning , and collaboration.
We are pleased to welcome dynamic leaders and investors in the fintech and payments marketplace for a panel discussion of the ins-and-outs of the SoCal fintech funding scene. p>
Attorneys from K&L Gates will lead off the e vening with a discussion about best practices and key compliance risks for fintechs that are preparing for an acquisition or investment (and related d iligence).
We hope you can make it to this event and feel free to spread the word.
AGENDA
5:30 PM | Registration |
6:00 PM | Presentation from K&L Gates attorneys: Preparing for funding |
Key fintech issues for investors an d companies in due diligence reviews, by Jeremy McLaughlin, an attorney at K&L Gates LLP | |
6:20 PM | Panel Disc ussion: How to get funded |
Brian Mac Mahon, Founder at Expert DOJO | Tejs Broberg, Founder &a mp; CEO at FinDox, Inc. |
TBA | |
TBA | |
7:30 PM | Networ king |
8:30 PM | En d of Session |
SPEAKERS
Jeremy McLaughli n
Attorney at K&L Gates LLP
Jeremy McLaughlin is an associate in K&L Gates ’s San Francisco office. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance and enforcement for Fintech and consumer financial products and services, with particular attention on emerging payments, payment systems, and prepaid pro ducts. Jeremy represents a broad range of clients across the financial serv ices and FinTech industries, ranging from startups and crypto/virtual curre ncy companies to some of the world’s largest financial institutions. They h ave included money services businesses, payment system providers, banks, re tailers, marketplace lenders, credit and prepaid card companies, debt colle ctors, and mortgage lenders and servicers. Jeremy counsels clients on compl iance with state and federal consumer protection laws, money transmitter la ws, international remittances, anti-money laundering laws, abandoned proper ty laws, and network rules, as well as advising on privacy, data security, and credit and licensed lending laws. He also serves as regulatory counsel in connection with investments, including conducting due diligences of paym ents, credit, and mortgage companies. He also assists clients with negotiat ing and drafting agreements involving payment technologies and licensing is sues, drafting terms and conditions and disclosures for new products, and s tructuring business operations to maximize efficiency and comply with legal obligations.
Andrew Glass
Attorney at K&L Gates LLP
Andrew Glass is a partner at K&L Gates LLP. He a dvises businesses in achieving integrated, multi- disciplinary solutions to managing risk. Mr. Glass and his project teams work closely with clients’ business lines, and their legal, compliance, and information technology dep artments, to navigate complex regulatory areas. Mr. Glass provides regulato ry-compliance advice and policy and procedure review. He oversees audits an d internal investigations and responds to government investigations. Mr. Gl ass defends complex litigation including class actions. He counsels compani es in the financial services, energy, media and telecommunications, manufac turing, and consumer product industries. His multi- faceted approach to pro blem-solving delivers seamless solutions to clients’ legal challenges.
< /div>Greg Blase
Attorney at K&L Gates LLP
Greg Blase advises clients on the development of integrated solutions for risk mitigation in industries that have consumer-facing business operations. He counsels companies to identify regulatory and litigation risk and to advise in-house legal departments and management on best practices for responding to that risk. Mr. Blase’s clients include leading companies in the financi al services, energy, media and telecommunications, manufacturing, and consu mer products industries. Mr. Blase provides regulatory-compliance advice an d policy and procedure review. He oversees audits and internal investigatio ns and responds to government investigations. Mr. Blase defends complex lit igation including class actions. He takes a holistic approach to addressing legal risk, recognizing the importance of bringing stakeholders together t o solve problems collectively.
PANELI STS
Brian Mac Mahon
F ounder at Expert DOJO
Brian Mac Maho n, the founder of Expert DOJO, has consulted and coached in over 35 countri es bringing a global perspective to starting and growing a small business. He has been teaching the power of connecting in a community and the process of turning a pay it forward mindset into a revenue generator for years. Br ian combines this teaching with the experience of working with thousands of small business over the years.
Brian heads the Expert DOJO high-perf ormance accelerator and has access to thousands of experts and mentors who will help any entrepreneur find what they need to pursue their small busine ss dream. He has spoken all over the world about the most efficient ways to start, grow and expand any business. He is a vital partner for any small b usiness team.
Brian and his team are the chosen coaching partner for many of the biggest entrepreneurship conferences in the United States inclu ding the Green Festival, Techweek, TechDay, Ideas Festival, Sustainatopia, Digital Hollywood, UPS Conference, Crypto Funding Summit, CryptoBloCon, Sta rt Engine Summit, Crypto Invest Summit.
Tejs Broberg
Founder & CEO at F inDox, Inc.
Tejs was the Founder an d CEO of LendAmend LLC, the leading loan corporate actions platform in the $1.5 trillion syndicated loan market. LendAmend launched in 2011 and was ac quired by Fidelity National (NYSE: FIS). Prior to founding LendAmend, Tejs spent 10 years investing in distressed debt, syndicated loans and high yiel d bonds for Foothill Capital, Columbia Threadneedle and most recently as Ma naging Director and Portfolio Manager for Levine Leichtman Capital Partners . Tejs holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, is a CFA charter holder and represented Denmark in the 1998 Winter Olympics.
MODERATOR
Judith Rinearson
Partner at K&L Gates
Judith Rinearson is a partner in the firm’s New York and London office s. Ms. Rinearson concentrates her practice in prepaid and emerging payment systems, electronic payments, crypto/virtual currencies, reward programs, A CH and check processing. She has more than 25 years of experience in the fi nancial services industry, including 18 years at American Express’s General Counsel’s Office. Her expertise focuses particularly in the areas of emerg ing payments and compliance with state and federal consumer protection laws , anti-money laundering laws, state money transmitter licensing laws and ab andoned property laws.
Fully experienced in both the “issuing” and “a cquiring” side of the payments business, Ms. Rinearson has drafted and nego tiated complex agreements with strategic co-branded partners, processors an d Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), ATM networks, major retailers and service providers, prepaid card issuers and program managers, internationa l remittance companies, virtual and mobile payment providers, as well as th e Terms and Conditions and disclosures that usually accompany such products . She has hands-on experience in all legal aspects of launching and managin g a range of payment products, from prepaid cards of all kinds, to Bitcoin exchanges and miners, wire transfer services, ACH, electronic banking, mone y orders and credit cards. Her practice includes advising on fraud avoidanc e and compliance with federal banking and anti-money laundering laws, as we ll as state money transmitter licensing laws, consumer protection laws and abandoned property laws. On the international level, Ms. Rinearson has supe rvised the launch of a range of payment and foreign currency products in Eu rope, Asia and Latin America; met with international regulators; and spoken on the issue of payment regulation.
Ms. Rinearson currently serves o n the Advisory Board of the UK’s Emerging Payments Association (EPA), and p reviously served on the Board of the UK’s Prepaid International Forum (PIF) where she is still an active contributor. She has also served for 8 years as Regulatory Counsel for the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBP CA) in the U.S., and as Chair of the NBPCA’s Government Relations Working G roup, and in that role represented the NBPCA at the Bank Secrecy Act Adviso ry Group (BSAAG) in Washington DC.
She has long been a member of the American Bar Association’s Cyberspace Law Committee, where she has previous ly chaired the Payment Card Fraud Task Force.
Over the years, Ms. Rin earson has garnered many honors. In 2015, she was named one of the Top 10 P ayment Lawyers, by Paybefore magazine and in the same year was voted as one of the most Influential Women in Payments at the same publication. In Marc h 2008, she was honored with an Industry Achievement Award from the 2008 Pr epaid Card Expo for her contributions as a pioneer in the prepaid card indu stry and her particular influence in the regulation of prepaid cards.
She has also given numerous presentations about payment regulations at mee tings held by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Chicago, the Co nference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), the Electronic Funds Transfer As sociation, Forum Europe, NACHA, and at annual meetings of the Money Transmi tter Regulators Association, American Bar Association and the National Asso ciation of Unclaimed Property Administrators. In 2015 and 2016, among other things, Ms. Rinearson presented at the Prepaid International Forum in Lond on regarding U.S. payment laws; moderated a panel at Money2020 regarding st ate money transmitter licensing issues; and trained bank examiners regardin g prepaid cards and emerging payments including crypto-currencies such as B itcoin, Etherium and Ripple. She also testified at the January 2014 Virtual Currency Hearings before the New York State Department of Financial Servic es regarding regulation of virtual and crypto currencies.
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