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Ericka Simpson Conner

Ericka draws on her past experiences as a financial services compliance officer, where one of her main tasks was to advise on whether company policies and procedures and operations were compliant with federal regulations, to offer a fresh perspective on laws applicable to financial institutions and other lenders. Ericka advises consumer finance clients on compliance and risk mitigation.

Europe’s data protection rules will undergo their biggest change in two decades when the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR replaces the current Data Protection Directive and imposes uniform data security requirements on all EU members. While the GDPR is “an evolution, not a revolution” for data protection, there are several significant changes for which companies should be prepared.