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Justin Steffen

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Justin is a partner in Barack Ferrazzano’s Financial Institutions Group. Clients seek out Justin for help with managing and negotiating partnerships (Fintech and BaaS), payment issues (real-time, wires, ACH, card networks, BIN sponsorship), digital asset matters, and other technology-focused concerns (financial privacy, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and data analytics and usage).

Justin helps scores of bank and fintech clients identify and evaluate prospective partners, negotiate program management and partnership agreements, obtain regulatory approval for BaaS and other strategic endeavors, and manage ongoing partnerships. In the last few years alone, he has helped clients launch products and services including credit, debit, and prepaid cards, payment processing, real-time and faster payment services, commercial and consumer loans, digital asset custody, and investment products.

Private equity, venture, and traditional clients also retain Justin to thoroughly evaluate and diligence investment or acquisition targets. He specializes in evaluating licensed, regulated targets, including state and national banks, trust companies (including special purpose and non-depository trusts), payments companies (including payment facilitators, payment processors, and ISOs), lenders, loan servicers and debt collectors, money transmitters, insurance companies, and digital asset companies.

Justin also combines his deep understanding of technology and financial regulation to obtain licenses, no-action letters, and legal opinions from federal and state regulators across the country. His prolific advocacy has caused regulators to seek Justin out to help educate bank examiners and enforcement attorneys on the relevant risks of BaaS, Fintech partnerships, digital assets, and other technologies.

A cited authority on digital currency, lending, and fintech issues, his notable accomplishments in the field include creating a Financial and Emerging Technologies course that he teaches at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, founding the Fintech practice at two AmLaw200 law firms, and organizing the first legal-themed digital currencies conference, the Block (Legal) Tech Conference.