Open Banking: Why It Matters, and What It Means For Our Data
Linda Jeng is the Founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs, a regulatory, policy & tech advisory firm. She is also a Visiting Scholar on Financial Technology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for International of Economic Law, a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, and a Bank for International Settlements Research Fellow. Her research interests include open banking, digital identity, and DeFi. Previously, she was the Chief Global Regulatory Officer & General Counsel of the Crypto Council for Innovation (a leading crypto industry association), the Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer of the Centre Consortium (the former standard setter for the global stablecoin USDC), and the Global Head of Policy at Transparent Financial Systems (a DeFi startup developing a tokenized dollar payment solution).
Prior to these private sector roles, she was at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors where she chaired the Basel Committee’s working group on open banking. She has spent most of her career working on financial stability and regulatory reform, including at the Financial Stability Board working on international standards addressing Too-Big-to-Fail, the U.S. Senate drafting the Dodd-Frank Act, and the U.S. Treasury Department on the international implementation of G20-led reforms. Linda also has worked at the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Credit Agricole in Paris. Linda has testified in front of Congress and frequently comments in print, podcast, and television, including Financial Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, etc. She is also a Forbes contributor. She has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, a Diplôme d'études approfondies from University of Toulouse, France, and a B.A. from Duke University.
Ms. Jeng's Athenaeum visit is co-sponsored by the Financial Economics Institute (FEI) at CMC.