Richard Cordray, long-time financial literacy advocate and the new Director of the Consumer Protection Bureau, has an extensive history of working with Visa to improve financial education. He demonstrated his quest to improve global financial literacy by partnering with Visa as a speaker at the 2007 Financial Literacy and Education Summit and on the Ohio rollout of the educational game, Financial Football.
Cordray played an integral role in Visa's first annual Financial Literacy and Education Summit as a featured panelist. The then-state treasurer of Ohio joined the discussion on policy along with other leaders in the field of financial education. Discussion focused on ways to promote financial education on a national level.
State Treasurer Richard Cordray is promoting a pre-developed financial literacy curriculum for Ohio school districts.