WHF/WHFF Partner Series: FinTech Policy Developments

The panelists will talk about FinTech policy, particularly the wave of “unbundling the banks.”

Speakers: 

Kelvin Chen, Vice President, Senior Associate General Counsel, Capital One
John A. Beccia III, Co-Founder and CEO, FS Vector

Date: December 1, 2020 
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET
Location: Zoom Webinar (information will be emailed in your confirmation email)
Cost: Members: $5.00 suggested donation (no charge registration is available)  
         Non-Members: $10 donation 

Speakers Bios:  

Kelvin Chen leads the Capital One Legal Department's Bank Regulatory and Policy team. Prior to joining Capital One in late 2019, Kelvin created and led the Federal Reserve Board's Innovation Policy team in the Division of Supervision & Regulation. Before joining the Board, Kelvin served as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Program Manager for Emerging Payments. There, he led the agency’s policy response to various payment innovations, such as virtual currencies. In prior roles, Kelvin led the Bureau’s study of mandatory arbitration provisions; advised agency principals at the Federal Trade Commission on policy and enforcement matters; and was a litigator in the New York offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. Kelvin studied Systems Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania (’00); attended New York University School of Law (’04); and is affiliated with the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and the Digital Dollar Project.

John Beccia provides a wide range of regulatory and compliance solutions for financial services, fintech, and cryptocurrency firms.  He was most recently General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Circle Internet Financial, Inc., a global crypto finance company that is seeking to help change the global economy. Mr. Beccia previously served as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded bank holding company. He was also Assistant General Counsel for Investors Bank & Trust Company and Chief Regulatory Counsel and Research Director for The Financial Services Roundtable where he was responsible for all regulatory affairs and assisted with legislative efforts for the trade association. Mr. Beccia has served as Chairman of the In-House Counsel Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Banking Law Committee and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Boston University School of Law. Mr. Beccia has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Providence College, a J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law, and a LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law. 

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