Hope Mehlman

Hope Mehlman is Associate General Counsel at Regions Financial Corporation headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. I am member of the Bars of Alabama, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and New York.

2. Type of work performed in 1 above

I advise Regions on legal issues relating to intellectual property, information security and threat assessment, phishing, fraud prevention and remediation efforts, vendor contracts, and corporate governance.

3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois

None

4. Nature of your interest in Whois

Financial institutions and their customers and consumers have been and continue to be a favorite target for perpetrators of fraud, particularly fraud utilizing Internet resources. Accordingly, financial institutions have a genuine need to have access to the Whois data to reduce fraud, mitigate identity theft, and to protect customers and consumers, as well as their intellectual property.

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