Consumer Finance Monitor

Alan Kaplinsky

marketingtechnology@ballardspahr.com

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Booking Overview

A weekly interview and expert-analysis show focused on consumer financial services law, regulation, compliance, enforcement, and emerging fintech developments, typically featuring Ballard Spahr attorneys alongside outside policy experts, industry advocates, and financial-services specialists. Credible pitches include banking and fintech executives, regulatory-policy scholars, AML/CFT authorities, payments and lending experts, and leaders with substantive perspectives on consumer finance; booking difficulty is high because guests generally need significant subject-matter authority and professional prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.5k followers

Contact Information

marketingtechnology@ballardspahr.com

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Host

Alan Kaplinsky - Senior Counsel at Ballard Spahr, founder and former leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group, with decades of experience in consumer financial services law.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior executives, founders, policy leaders, legal and regulatory specialists, financial-services practitioners, and recognized academic or industry experts with direct expertise in consumer finance, banking, fintech, payments, lending, or financial regulation.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership of a financial-services, fintech, lending, payments, or policy organization, Recognized expertise in banking or consumer-finance regulation, Academic, research, or thought-leadership credentials in financial regulation or digital assets, Relevant public-policy, advocacy, or industry accomplishments

Recent Guest Discussions

Louis Caditz-Peck - Small-business Lending Transparency, Fair Lending, And The Cfpb's Section 1071 Rule

Bradley Blower - Small-business Lending Reporting, Fair Lending, And The Cfpb's Section 1071 Rule

Lee Reiners - Bank Charters For Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Payments, And Lending Companies

Recent Topics

Consumer Finance, Financial Regulation, Fintech, Banking, Compliance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Consumer Finance Monitor
:

New Institute for Consumer Financial Choice Seeks to Reshape the Consumer Finance Policy Debate

July 30, 2026

A newly launched academic institute is seeking to influence the future direction of consumer financial services regulation by promoting a policy framework centered on consumer choice, market competition, empirical research, and innovation. In the podcast we are releasing today on Consumer Finance Monitor, our host Alan Kaplinsky (founder, former chair for 25 years and now senior counsel) interviewed Professors Todd Zywicki of George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and Tom Miller of...

CFPB's Revised Section 1071 Rule: What Lenders Need to Know About the New Small Business Lending Reporting Requirements

July 23, 2026

In today's episode of the Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, we are pleased to present an audio version of the webinar we conducted on May 27, 2026 examining the CFPB's revised final rule and its practical implications for banks, credit unions, FinTech companies, and other providers of small business credit. During this comprehensive discussion, our host, Alan Kaplinsky (founder, former Practice Group Leader for 25 years and now Senior Counsel of the Consumer Financial Services Group) was join...

Agentic Commerce Is Coming—Will the Legal System Be Ready?

July 16, 2026

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a tool that assists human decision-making into technology capable of acting independently. The next frontier, often referred to as agentic AI or agentic commerce, envisions AI agents negotiating contracts, making purchases, authorizing payments, and completing commercial transactions with little or no human intervention. While enormous investments are being made to develop this technology, far less attention has been devoted to an equally impor...

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