Ms. Ward concentrates her practice on providing financial institutions, FinTechs, consumer advocacy groups, non-profits, and trade associations with her deep knowledge of complex, inter-governmental matters that intersect financial services laws and public policy to advance clients objectives on Capitol Hill, within regulatory agencies, and across the Executive Branch.
Ms. Ward has broad experience in the areas of consumer financial services, with particular strength in the single-family mortgage market, payment systems, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Minority Depository Institutions (MDI), small business lending, federal tax credit allocations, and federal grants and loan guarantee management. She frequently works on issues involving the House Financial Services Committee, Senate Banking Committee, Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Federal Reserve. She also provides strategic advice addressing decentralized finance (DeFi) activities, including blockchain technology, payment systems, digital identity, anti-money laundering (AML) / Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) solutions , stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Ward was an attorney and advisor with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland.