Jess Cheng
Jess Cheng is a partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini, where she represents clients as a member of the firm’s fintech and financial services group. She helps innovative companies adapt and thrive in the evolving payments space. Ms. Cheng was formerly senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where she advised on a spectrum of payment system issues, including oversight of the FedNow Service, as well as central bank digital currencies, blockchain-based payment infrastructures, and payment stablecoins. Prior to that, she was Counsel at the International Monetary Fund, Deputy General Counsel at enterprise crypto company Ripple, Counsel and Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an associate at Wachtell Lipton.
Ms. Cheng is a member of the American Law Institute. She also currently serves as a subject-matter expert identified by the U.S. State Department to the Hague Conference for its exploratory work on central bank digital currencies.