Raj Date is a fintech investor, regulatory advisor, and former CFPB leader who links multiple institutions in the Jessica Killin source cluster, including Fenway Summer, FS Vector, Customers Bancorp, and Circle.
In the current repository, Date is the clearest recurring actor connecting household financial disclosures, venture investing, regulatory advisory work, bank governance, and digital-asset infrastructure. The current sources present him as Jessica Killin's spouse, a former CFPB startup leader, the managing partner of Fenway Summer, a co-founder of FS Vector, and a director-level figure at Circle and formerly Customers.
- Role or function: investor, advisor, board member, former financial regulator
- Scope: financial services, fintech, digital assets, and regulatory strategy
- Known aliases: Rajeev Date, Rajeev V. Date
- Relevant affiliations: Fenway Summer, FS Vector, CFPB, Customers Bancorp, Circle, Easterseals DC MD VA advocacy event leadership
- Important context: the current corpus often uses Date to explain how regulatory expertise and industry participation converge within one professional network
¶ Evidence and source basis
wiki/summaries/jessica-killin-financial-services-fintech-network.md: covers Date's later firm, board, disclosure, and network overlap in the Killin clusterwiki/summaries/raj-date-cfpb-to-fenway-background.md: adds the earlier CFPB leadership, departure, Fenway transition, and 2024 supervision essay backgroundraw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 raj-date-fs-vector-team.md: identifies Date as FS Vector co-founder and senior advisor and as Circle's lead independent directorraw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 home-fenway-summer.md: describes Fenway Summer as Date's firm and frames FS Vector as its advisory partnerraw/articles/2026-04-05T141500-0600 a-practical-guide-to-stablecoin-payments-fs-vector.md and raw/articles/2026-04-05T141530-0600 american-fintech-council-joins-forces-with-fs-vector-to-promote-responsible-innovation-and-regulatory-modernization.md: strengthen the case that one Date-linked firm, FS Vector, is directly marketing stablecoin-compliance work and participating in a fintech regulatory-modernization advocacy ecosystemraw/datasets/Groups That Have Retained FS Vector in 2021.md through raw/datasets/Groups That Have Retained FS Vector in 2025.md: add a multi-year lobbying-adjacent retained-client record for FS Vector, which strengthens the firm's political-process relevance without showing Date's personal lobbying activityraw/articles/2026-04-05T163300-0600 fs-vector-ava-labs-ld2-q1-2025.md and raw/articles/2026-04-05T163330-0600 fs-vector-bank-policy-institute-lda-search-results.md: add direct Senate lobbying-disclosure evidence for FS Vector itself, strengthening the firm-side policy-process record around one Date-linked node without establishing that Date personally lobbied or joined a specific rulemaking docketraw/papers/174384.md: adds formal adviser-structure evidence on the Fenway side of Date's network, including his role at Fenway Summer Investment Management, while also clarifying that this filing is not direct FS Vector registration evidenceraw/papers/e66eabd9-baba-4327-b68c-81f99906e97c.md, raw/papers/0513d861-6166-4444-b86f-4b2d381327f8.md, and raw/papers/278951d6-0781-45c2-9686-6a4408a8b054.md: add official annual-report support that Date remained a Customers director through the February 2025 filing cycle before the later March 2025 resignation filingraw/articles/2026-04-04T183639-0600 cubi-20250328.md: documents Date's resignation from the Customers and Customers Bank boards in March 2025 and ties that move to more time for Fenway Summer and Circleraw/papers/S-1.md: supports the use of Circle's 2025 IPO process as a governance and timing anchor for Date's board-level relevance in the stablecoin sliceraw/articles/2026-04-04T183823-0600 board-of-directors-easterseals-disability-community-services.md and raw/articles/2026-04-04T183825-0600 committees-advocacy-awards-easterseals-disability-community-services.md: place Date and Killin in the same later nonprofit orbit, while preserving that this is weaker than their direct household and firm ties
- The newer background summary improves the CFPB side of the corpus, but the repository is still stronger on Date's later firm and board roles than on fine-grained internal CFPB history.
- The current repository strongly supports Date's roles at Fenway Summer, FS Vector, Customers, and Circle, but it is still thinner on direct dated participation by Date himself in GENIUS or CLARITY committee and comment processes than it is on firm or board positioning.
- The new FS Vector retained-client datasets and Senate lobbying-disclosure captures strengthen firm-level political-process relevance, but they do not establish that Date himself personally lobbied, donated, or participated in a specific rulemaking process.
- The Customers annual-report batch sharpens Date's board-role timing, but it does not establish any ownership or pass-through economic relationship through tax-document evidence.
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