CLOSING SUPER SESSION: Regulatory Compliance (Closed to Media)

Founder & President, Compliability Solutions LLC

Michael is President of Compliability Solutions, an advisory services and staffing company focused on optimizing compliance, quality, and risk solutions in highly regulated industries. Prior to founding Compliability Solutions, Michael served as a Senior Vice President at Mr. Cooper Group where his Servicing Advisory Team was responsible for Issues Management, Change of Law, and Quality Control, as well as formulating and executing on strategic initiatives that mitigate risk in Servicing. Michael was formerly the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Bayview/Community Loan Servicing where he was responsible for the Compliance and Oversight Department’s management, leadership and direction as well as the company’s overall compliance strategy. Prior to joining Bayview, Michael was Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s nationally recognized Mortgage Banking Group. With over 25 years servicing the industry in a wide variety of legal and compliance-related functions, working with/for hundreds of financial services companies, Michael is known for his ability to navigate the regulatory landscape, operationalize advice and build relationships that add value to those with whom he works. Michael received his law degree from Catholic University in Washington, DC, and his undergraduate degree in Government and Law and English from Lafayette College in Easton, PA.

President, Firstline Compliance, LLC

Joshua Weinberg is a nationally recognized speaker, author, consultant, and leader in the mortgage industry. He is the President of Firstline Compliance (www.firstlinecompliance.com), a consulting company specializing in mortgage compliance and technology. He works closely with Federal and State Regulators and participates with many industry associations. He currently leads MBA’s LEP Working Group and is the past Chair of MBA’s Regulatory Compliance Committee, a member of ABA’s Residential Markets Committee, and Past Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for MISMO.

Special Counsel, Cooley LLP

Kate provides financial services clients with advice that pertains to every stage of the business life cycle – from formation to enforcement. She provides strategic licensing and regulatory guidance to emerging companies and private investors to identify and secure the regulatory approvals necessary to achieve operational goals. Kate also advises banks, consumer and commercial lenders, and fintech companies on state and federal compliance requirements. In addition, Kate represents clients in a wide range of matters before state and federal regulators, including government investigations and enforcement actions brought by state banking banking agencies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Justice.

Partner, Paul Hastings LLP

Kari Hall counsels financial services companies on regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters, with a focus on consumer lending and retail banking. Ms. Hall advises banks and non-banks on complex regulatory matters, risk management, and enforcement matters across deposits, payments, mortgage, auto lending, and open-ended credit. She has deep experience advising on deposit account and card products, services, and disclosures, electronic fund transfers and other electronic transfers and payments, fair lending, fair servicing, and UDAAP. She advises clients regarding product development and compliance and represents clients in internal reviews and investigations, as well as examinations, investigations, and enforcement actions by government agencies and state regulators.

Managing Partner, Garris Horn LLP

Richard Horn is a former Senior Counsel & Special Advisor in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Regulations and a former Senior Attorney at the FDIC. Richard led the CFPB’s design of the TRID disclosures, as well as the qualitative and quantitative consumer testing of the disclosures. As a key architect of the TRID rulemaking, Richard is one of the foremost experts on the rule. Richard represents companies dealing with the CFPB and other Federal and State regulators in supervisory and enforcement matters. Richard also advises companies regarding compliance with Federal and State consumer financial protection laws, including TRID, RESPA section 8, ATR/QM, Loan Originator Compensation, privacy, and other laws.

Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP

Lisa Lanham co-leads the firm's Fintech and Payments Solutions Team. Her practice focuses on financial services matters related to the state licenses and federal approvals necessary to conduct business for a variety of asset classes and market participants. Her clients include residential and commercial mortgage brokers, lenders, servicers, and loan fulfilment providers; student, consumer, and solar loan lenders and servicers; entities offering retail installment contracts for the purchase of consumer goods; marketplace lenders; and investors who engage in secondary market activities related to these business lines. She also works with early-stage Fintech companies in all of these business lines to help develop products mindful of state licensing and regulatory compliance requirements and obtain and maintain any required state licenses and approvals necessary to engage in business.

Senior Associate, Alston & Bird, LLP

Melissa Malpass advises financial institutions on compliance with federal and state consumer financial laws. She regularly counsels mortgage lenders on loan origination, including disclosures, loan originator compensation, ability-to-repay standards, and other requirements imposed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), and Title XIV of the Dodd–Frank Act. Melissa also advises mortgage servicers on compliance with federal and state regulations governing loss mitigation and foreclosure. Malpass has extensive experience counseling financial institutions on fair lending matters, specifically with developing internal policies and procedures for compliance monitoring and training. She has advised financial institutions on regulatory compliance with federal consumer financial laws such as the prohibition on unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices. In particular, she provided financial technology companies with regulatory guidance on emerging payment systems and requirements under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA).

Partner, Hudson Cook, LLP

Jed Mayk is a partner in the Pennsylvania office of Hudson Cook and Chair of the firm’s Mortgage Lending and Servicing Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on state and federal regulatory compliance for the mortgage and home equity lending programs of banks and licensed lenders. Jed advises clients on TILA, RESPA and the other core mortgage banking laws. He is the co-Editor in Chief of HouseLaw and a co-author of the RESPA/TIL Integrated Disclosures chapter of The Law of Truth in Lending. Jed is also the author of the MBA’s Compliance Essentials: Home Equity Line of Credit Resource Guide.

Attorney at Law, McGlinchey Stafford

Jim is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of McGlinchey Stafford – a law firm serving the financial services industry and other corporate and commercial clients. Jim's practice focuses on the financial services industry in connection with regulatory compliance and transactional matters, particularly with respect to federal and state consumer finance and mortgage banking law issues. Jim represents and advises mortgage companies, consumer finance companies, financial institutions and secondary market investors on issues related to their lending and investment operations. Among other subjects, Jim is nationally recognized as one of the nation's leading lawyers in the area of reverse mortgage law.