FinTech + Financial Services Group
The Hintze Law PLLC FinTech & Financial Services Privacy Group supports clients in the FinTech and Financial Services sectors. We help clients in these regulated spaces to strategically address privacy, data security, and AI laws, compliance, and objectives. We have a number of team members who have worked in-house at FinTech and Financial Services companies, and our expertise and their experience help us to skillfully advise clients in these sectors.
The topics and matters we handle include:
Data Rights and Strategy. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients to identify the rights and obligations they have in different types of personal data, and to set their data strategy to maximize those rights in line with their business objectives. We help clients understand the interplay between general and sectoral privacy laws and regulations and contractual arrangements that apply uniquely in these sectors.
Privacy Programs and Operations. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients to establish and mature privacy programs and operations to address compliance and enable customer trust and engagement.
Privacy Assessments. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients to assess how products, services, and partnerships process personal data through privacy assessments. We also help FinTech and Financial Services clients establish and optimize repeatable privacy assessment processes.
Marketing. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients develop marketing programs that comply with marketing privacy laws, including for telemarketing, texting, on-device, email, and other direct marketing channels. We also help clients design compliance programs and auditable controls to capture and manage opt-in and opt-out consents required for direct marketing efforts.
AdTech and Targeted Advertising. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients enable use of adtech capabilities to effectively reach customers and prospects through targeted advertising. We advise on strategic and practical solutions to address privacy laws and industry codes of conduct when tracking and targeting customers and prospects.
Partnerships. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients identify and address personal data-related objectives and opportunities in business partnerships, such as in affinity and private label card programs, gift card programs, digital wallets and payment technology, and joint marketing relationships.
Vendors and Supply Chain. We review and negotiate contracts with FinTech and Financial Services client vendors to address privacy and data security risks and requirements. We help clients develop vendor risk management programs for privacy and data protection, and to conduct assessments of existing and prospective vendors.
Privacy and Security Due Diligence. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients in conducting and responding to privacy and security due diligence inquiries in corporate M&A and financing transactions.
Regulatory Defense. We assist FinTech and Financial Services clients in engaging with and responding to regulator inquiries and investigations. We also assist with managing compliance with regulatory consent decrees and settlement agreements.
Regulatory and Public Policy. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients on legislative and regulatory proposals, including with input on developing privacy, data security, and AI laws and regulations.
Facial Recognition and Biometric Data. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients when collecting or using facial recognition or other biometric data, including in connection with fraud, AML, and KYC efforts.
Privacy Notices and Transparency. We help FinTech and Financial Services clients set strategies for transparency about privacy practices, including in external communications, trust centers, and privacy notices.
Data Security and Breaches. We assist FinTech and Financial Services clients in responding to data breaches, including by acting as breach coach to help manage the various workstreams and considerations, and as counsel. We also help FinTech and Financial Services clients with strategies to minimize the risks involved with data breaches, prepare response capabilities and plans, and to set up and optimize privacy incident classification and review protocols.
Employee Privacy. We help FinTech and Financial Services to address employee privacy requirements, including when tracking/monitoring employees, addressing data subject rights, gathering biometric data, or using AI applications.
Privacy, Security and AI Policies. We develop internal privacy, security, and AI policies and resources for FinTech and Financial Services clients, including to help address applicable privacy, data security, and AI laws.
