Marilyn Barker focuses her practice on counseling financial services institutions on federal and state Bank Secrecy Act regulatory and compliance matters, including those involving anti-money laundering, stored value, and electronic payments issues.

Prior to joining the firm, she worked at the Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). During her tenure at FinCEN, she served as a project officer in the Office of Regulatory Policy of the Regulatory Policy and Programs Division, and as a team leader for money services businesses and stored value issues. In that capacity, Ms. Barker provided advice, guidance and developed policy for the administration of the Bank Secrecy Act regulations for financial institutions. She frequently lectured to foreign delegations from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America on the U.S. regulation of money services businesses and informal value transfer systems from an anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing perspective. Ms. Barker also served as a U.S. delegate to the Financial Action Task Force, an international body that develops and promotes policies designed to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Counter-Terrorism Financing Workshop in Melbourne, Australia.

She also served as Senior Counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as an attorney with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In her role as an attorney at the Board, she advised on civil administrative enforcement matters relating to regulatory and supervisory compliance for bank holding companies and state member banks. Ms. Barker previously was an associate in a Los Angeles firm, focusing on various banking, corporate and bankruptcy issues.

Publications

• "Prepaid Remittance Cards: BSA Compliance and Risk Management Implications," Paybefore.com, June 2008
• "The Significance for the Prepaid Industry of FinCEN Ruling 2008-R005: Whether Certain Reloadable Card Operations are Money Businesses," Bryan Cave Banking Bulletin, May 2008
• "FinCEN: Merchants and ATMs Offering Prepaid Card Reloading Services  Are Not Money Transmitters," Paybefore.com, May 2008

Speaking Engagements

• Featured Speaker at the Prepaid Card Expo, Las Vegas, Nevada, August, 2008

• "Cyberspace Law: New Growth in Payment Card Fraud," American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting, Aug. 8, 2008

• Moderator and Roundtable Participant in 3rd Annual Underbanked Financial Services Forum Hosted by the Center for Financial Services Innovation, June 2008
• U.S. Delegate and Presenter to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Counter-terrorism Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, July 2007

Languages

• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Swedish