Helen Wong

Helen Wong is an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, with the Division of Financial Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection. Her work focuses on consumer protection enforcement actions involving financial technology issues, including mobile payments, emerging payment and commerce platforms, crowd-funding, and cryptocurrencies. She has acted as the lead attorney on a number of cases, including the FTC's first Bitcoin-related case and the first crowdfunding case. In addition, she has litigated numerous other matters involving short-term lending, credit counseling, and debt collection.

Ms. Wong is a frequent speaker on Fintech topics, having addressed numerous conferences including the National Association of Attorney Generals’ Conference, the DC Blockchain Summit, and TEDx Northwestern. Prior to joining the FTC, she was an associate at the law firm of White & Case.

She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Georgetown University Law Center.