ABOUT
Jess Cheng is a member of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich& Rosati and practices in the corporate department of the firm’s New York office. She was formerly senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where she specialized in a broad spectrum of payment system issues, including policy analysis of digital assets, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies and oversight of the Federal Reserve’s payment services, including the FedNow Service. Prior to that, she was counsel at the International Monetary Fund, where she advised on the strategic direction of the Fund’s fintech work agenda and provided technical assistance to advance law reform in central bank legislation. Previously, she was deputy general counsel at Ripple (a San Francisco-based fintech company specializing in DLT-based cross-border payment solutions), counsel and officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an associate at the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She holds a BA in economics from Yale University and a JD from Columbia Law School. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Uniform Commercial Code Committee.
