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Ashlie Tarpley
Regulatory Attorney
Represented national banks, multinational financial institutions, and specialty insurers in complex federal and state litigation, then built regulatory, compliance, and data privacy programs from the ground up as in-house counsel to a multibillion-dollar financial institution.
Biography
Ashlie Tarpley advises fintech companies, financial institutions, and finance creators on consumer financial services compliance, contracting, and privacy and AI governance. She spent over a decade in federal financial regulation, working on supervision policy, UDAAP, payments, and consumer lending matters at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Earlier in her career, she served as in-house counsel at Pentagon Federal Credit Union, where she built the institution’s privacy program from the ground up as its inaugural Data Privacy Officer. Before moving in-house, she represented national and multinational financial institutions in complex federal and state litigation. She holds a CIPP/US certification and is admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia.
Representative Matters
- Directed 25+ supervisory examinations of financial institutions for compliance with federal consumer financial laws, identifying violations and ordering remediation to harmed consumers.
- Designed a federal housing finance regulator’s first UDAP examination program and led its supervision quality-control function from inception
- Built a financial institution’s enterprise data privacy and protection program from inception as its inaugural Data Privacy Officer, including policies, training, and a high-volume technology and vendor contracting function
- Represented a leading national bank, a multinational banking group, and a specialty insurance carrier in 130+ federal and state court matters involving account disputes, mortgage and student loan servicing, debt collection practices, and consumer reporting compliance
- Supported a U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division Fraud Section investigation into mortgage-backed securities practices, analyzing mortgage origination and securitization conduct at major financial institutions
Recognitions
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Education
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., International and Comparative Law Certificate (May 2012)
- Member, Mock Trial Team
- Participant, International Arbitration Moot Court (Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna, Austria)
- University of Florida, B.S. in Journalism, Minors in Spanish and History (May 2009)
Admissions
- Bar Admissions: Florida, District of Columbia
