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Bob Ledig

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Robert Ledig is Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center – www.fintsc.org. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School teaching Privacy & Information Security Law. He is a partner at Vartanian & Ledig PLLC, a Washington, D.C. financial services law firm.

 

He has extensive experience in banking and financial services regulation and related financial technology, privacy and information security, corporate, securities, administrative law and litigation matters. He has written and spoken widely on financial services issues.

 

He is an editor and author of a numbers of books, including: The Volcker Rule: Commentary and Analysis (2014), Dechert LLP’s Analysis of Financial Regulatory Reform [Dodd-Frank Act] for the American Bankers Association (2010), 21st Century Money, Banking & Commerce (1998), Management of Risks Created by Internet-Initiated Value Transfers (1995), The Fair Lending Guide (1995) and Contracting with the FDIC and RTC (1991). He was Chair of the Electronic Financial Services Subcommittee of the Cyberspace Committee of the American Bar Association.

 

He was Director of the Program on Financial Regulation & Technology and a Professor of Law at Scalia Law School from 2018 to 2021. He taught classes on FinTech, Regulation of Financial Institutions, Banking Law, and Privacy & Information Security Law. Prior to that he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the School for more than 20 years.

 

He practiced law and was a Partner in the financial services groups at Dechert LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP from 1984 to 2018. Prior to that, he was an attorney at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.