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Austen Jensen
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs
Austen Jensen serves as Executive Vice President for government affairs. In this role, Jensen advocates before Congress and relevant regulators to promote transparency, innovation, and competition in the payment ecosystem. In addition to handling the payments portfolio for RILA members, he also handles financial services issues that fall under the jurisdiction of Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Reserve.
Outside of the financial services arena, Jensen also directly handles environment and sustainability issues. As Executive Vice President of government affairs, he manages the government affairs team that advocates for workforce policy, privacy, trade, taxes, competition and innovation and is the chair of RILA’s Retail Leaders PAC.
Latest Insights from Austen Jensen
Fed’s Debit Clarification Could Lead to $3B in Debit Savings
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 02/24/2023
Credit Card Companies Deceiving Customers, Fed Report Finds
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 01/23/2023
Retail Works for All of Us
- By [Austen Jensen, Michael Hanson]
- 01/12/2023
2022 Election Impact on ESG Issues
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 12/06/2022
SWIPE: Fed Enforces Competition for Debit Transactions
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 10/05/2022
Federal Reserve Ends Debit Duopoly
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 10/03/2022
Retailers Welcome House Competition Bill Introduction
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 09/19/2022
Retailers Welcome Payments Competition Legislation
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 07/28/2022
RILA Promotes Austen Jensen to EVP, Government Affairs
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 05/16/2022
Federal Reserve Has Much to Do
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 05/12/2022