Rich Willis, partner in the Financial Services & Products Group, and Laura K. Song, associate in the Privacy & Data Security Team, co-authored the Bloomberg BNA article “Data Localization Poses Challenges for Payments Industry and Innovation.” In the article, Willis and Song discuss the different jurisdictional approaches to data localization and the impacts faced by those in the payments industry. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), data privacy has been the focus of recent attention but the article addresses why data localization may prove the most impactful to payment innovators.