Kansas City, Mo. – May 20, 2026: Attorneys Phillip (Chuck) Rouse and Molly Wackerly recently assisted a client in securing an approved registration in the Data Protection Framework (DPF) program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which addresses the cross-border transmission of data containing personally identifiable information of consumers. Chuck and Molly practice with the law firm’s Payments and Prepaid Instrument Practice Group.
In a world loaded with privacy laws, the Data Protection Framework was built upon three treaties reached between the United States and the United Kingdom, European Union, and Switzerland that address the permitted movement of data containing personal information of consumers across international borders. Companies with approved registrations under the DPF are permitted to move data to and from the United States and Europe pursuant to the treaties.
“Privacy laws increasingly are regulating the collection and use of personal information in payment card programs,“ Chuck Rouse said, “and that includes the regulation of the international movement of such data to and from the United States.”
About Molly Wackerly: Molly is an attorney with the firm, practicing in the areas of administrative law and regulatory compliance. Molly was also recently chosen among the “Ones to Watch” in Administrative/Regulatory Law by the Best Lawyers in America and focuses her practice in part on compliance regarding retail gift cards. Her focus includes regulatory matters regarding payment methods, payment instruments, and prepaid cards/access instruments. She also serves regulated clients with respect to their business law needs.
About Chuck Rouse: Chuck has practiced for the past 25-plus years extensively in the area of regulatory compliance regarding payment methods, payment instruments and prepaid cards/access instruments. He is a winner of the National Law Journal’s Trailblazer Award for Cryptocurrency/Blockchain/Fintech, was selected by the payments industry as one of the Top 10 Payment Lawyers in the U.S. and as the No. 1 overall, and received the ICON Award by Missouri Lawyers Weekly. Chuck has designed compliance models for more than 500 prepaid card programs, and is an inventor on patents regarding legal technologies in the payments sector, including methods and systems for optimizing escheat and derecognizing prepaid cards, stored value cards, credit memos, and electronic payment instruments.
About the Payments and Prepaid Instruments Practice Group: The Payments Group of the law firm addresses compliance of prepaid card and payment instrument programs with federal and state regulations. Their work has touched over a trillion dollars of card loads on billions of cards in hundreds of card programs in many countries. The Payments Group’s practice extends worldwide focusing upon compliance with regulations governing the prepaid card industry, including consumer protection laws, unclaimed property laws, anti-money laundering regulations, licensing requirements, privacy rules, fraud laws, local taxation laws, and the regulatory impact of GAAP and IFRS standards.
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