Malka Levitin is an associate in the Financial Services Practice Group at Morrison Foerster. Her practice focuses on advising banks, Fintechs, and other financial services companies on regulatory and transactional matters, and includes providing counsel on the Bank Holding Company Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, money transmission, lending, ACH processing, and other money movement issues.
Her financial services expertise includes a multi-year review of a bank’s compliance program, counseling foreign banks on branch, agency, and representative office activity, and obtaining a trust company charter for a cryptocurrency company. She has advised generally on the regulation of crypto-assets, ACH and deposit account agreements, and Banking as a Service models and the use of an FBO account. On behalf of clients, Malka has also managed inquiries, investigations, and audits from financial services regulators, including by guiding client responses and presentations to regulators.