Kate Larson

Regulatory Counsel, Consumer Bankers Association

Larson serves as regulatory counsel, focusing on a wide range of consumer protection issues including fair lending, privacy, home equity, mobile banking and the Community Reinvestment Act. She works regularly with officials on Capitol Hill and at the CFPB, FCC and prudential regulators. Prior to joining CBA, Larson served as the director of legislation and research at Williams & Jensen, PLLC, where she focused on financial services issues. During law school, she interned at Heather Podesta + Partners in Washington, D.C. and clerked at a civil litigation firm in Los Angeles, specializing in construction defect, professional liability and employment law.

The Future Of Payment Security: Where Do We Go From Here And Who Is Liable When We Get There?

Presented by Joseph Burton , Kate Larson , Dennis Simmons , Paul Yanowitch • November 6, 2014

Retail breaches are endemic in the U.S. primarily due to the lack of effective, in-person payment card security. As the rest of the world has embraced EMV, perhaps there is an opportunity for the U.S. to leapfrog even that significant level of security with technologies such as tokenization (as employed in the...

2014 Faces of Fraud

Presented by Tom Field , Kate Larson , David Pollino • November 6, 2014

As the Target and Home Depot incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging realms of virtual and mobile...