James Kim

Career

James advises fintechs, banks, investors and financial services clients regarding compliance with federal and state consumer financial laws and regulations – including Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Truth in Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act. He helps clients navigate examinations and investigations with federal and state regulators, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Trade Commission, New York Department of Financial Services, California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and state attorneys general. As a former senior enforcement attorney with the CFPB, James provides the industry knowledge and experience that fintechs and financial institutions require when launching new products or facing regulatory scrutiny.

James also assists clients with product development, regulatory due diligence and matters involving innovative products and cutting-edge issues, such as banking as a service, buy now, pay later, earned wage access, electronic payments, open banking and online lending.

James served as a senior enforcement attorney with the CFPB, where he was lead counsel in the CFPB’s first enforcement actions involving mobile payments and a member of an interdepartmental credit card/prepaid card/emerging payments issue team.

James has been featured by American Banker, Axios, Banking Dive, Banking Risk and Regulation, Bloomberg Law, FinXTech, Law360, PitchBook, PYMNTS and S&P Global Market Intelligence, and he regularly appears as a guest on “The Consumer Finance Podcast.”