Amy Friend has over 25 years of experience shaping banking and consumer financial protection law and regulation.  Amy was previously Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where she served on the Executive Committee and oversaw the agency’s legal and licensing functions, and led the OCC’s initiative to support responsible innovation in the federal banking system.  Amy also served as assistant chief counsel, leading the agency’s rulemakings on consumer financial privacy, data protection and credit reporting.  Amy was Chief Counsel of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, where she oversaw the development and passage of legislative initiatives to respond to the 2008 financial crisis, including the Dodd-Frank Act.  Other previous experience included serving as Minority General Counsel of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (now the House Committee on Financial Services).

Amy was a Managing Director of Promontory Financial Group where she advised financial services companies on compliance and governance and a senior advisor at FS Vector, a consulting firm focused on serving innovative financial companies.  She is currently a director of Varo Bank, a mobile mission-driven challenger bank that is the first fintech to receive a full-service national banking charter.  She is a director of FinRegLab, a nonprofit organization that conducts research and tests new technologies and data with the goal of improving and expanding access to financial services.  In 2018, Amy co-founded ALLRISE DC, an organization working to encourage and support women’s careers in financial services through mentoring, networking and education.