Kansas City, Mo. – May 19, 2026: Elish A. Meyers and Molly Wackerly have been selected by the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA) to provide support to the Association’s International Committee with legal updates regarding international matters. Elish and Molly practice law as part of the Payments and Prepaid Instruments Practice Group of the law firm.
The RGCA is the premiere trade association representing the closed-loop gift card industry. The RGCA board is comprised of numerous major national retail brands.
About Elish A. Meyers: Elish has extensive transactional experience in the areas of regulatory compliance for stored value card products and unclaimed property analysis. Her client base consists of an international network of more than 2,000 individuals and companies, including the RGCA and the Incentive Gift Card Council. Elish also provides legal counsel on matters in the government sector on behalf of the prepaid and gift card industry.
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 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 over time 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. It focuses 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.
About the firm:
Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes is a leading Kansas City law firm with a national reach that deploys skilled and client-focused practice groups to engineer favorable solutions in efficient and effective ways.
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