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The Financial Women's
Association Of San Francisco
in conjunction with Belvedere Capital
Presents
An Industry Leadership Series Event
"Hot Issues in Financial Regulation"
on
Monday June 22nd
Join us for this special lunch program featuring a
distinguished panel of federal and state bank regulators:-
Teresa Curran, Deputy Director of the Bank
Supervision Group, Federal Reserve Bank of S.F
William S. Haraf, Commissioner, California Department
of Financial Institutions
Stan Ivie, Regional Director of the San Francisco
Region, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kay E. Kowitt, Western District Deputy Comptroller,
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Moderated by: Rosemarie Oda, Pillsbury
Among the questions to be addressed:
- What are the lessons learned from
the financial crisis?
- How should banks address key issues
like capital, liquidity and risk
management?
- How has TARP changed the rules?
- What do the large bank stress tests
reveal?
About the Panelists
Teresa Curran
Teresa Curran serves as Group Vice President of the Division
of Banking Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco. In that capacity, Ms. Curran is
responsible for overseeing the supervision of all the
domestic and foreign financial institutions that are under
the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Federal Reserve. She
first joined the bank in 1995 as Asia regional manager, and
was responsible for monitoring and analyzing financial
sector developments within the Asian region. Prior to
joining the Federal Reserve, Ms. Curran served with the U.S.
Executive Director at the Asian Development Bank in the
Philippines, as an international economist at the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, and as a staff member of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of
Representatives. Ms. Curran holds a bachelor's degree from
Pomona College, a master's degree in public policy from
Harvard University, and an M.B.A. Certificate from the
University of California, Berkeley.
William S. Haraf
William Haraf was sworn in as Commissioner, Department of
Financial Institutions, for the state of California on April
8, 2008. As Commissioner, he has statutory responsibility
for the performance of all duties, the exercise of all
powers and jurisdiction, and the discharge of all
responsibilities vested by law in the Department.
Haraf's prior career has spanned commercial and investment
banking, the executive branch of the federal government,
academia and the think tank world. From 2005 until his
swearing in, Haraf was an independent consultant with the
Promontory Financial Group and a Visiting Professor in the
Graduate School of Management at the University of
California at Davis. At Promontory, he worked with a number
of financial institutions on such matters as corporate
organizational design, strategic planning, senior management
reviews, compliance program design and implementation, and
anti-money laundering programs.
From 1999 to 2003, he was Managing Director and Chief of
Staff at Banc of America Securities. Before taking this
assignment, he had been Senior Vice President, Strategic
Policy Development and Planning for Bank of America since
1994. Prior to joining Bank of America, Haraf was Director
of Policy Analysis with Citicorp in Washington D.C., where
he was responsible for policy analysis and issue management
of a broad range of public policy issues affecting banking
and financial services.Before joining Citicorp in 1989, he was the J. Edward Lundy
Scholar and Director of the Financial Markets Project at the
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in
Washington D.C.
Haraf served as special assistant to the Chairman and senior
staff economist to the President's Council of Economic
Advisors in the Reagan Administration from 1983 - 1985. He
was assistant professor of Economics at Brown University
from 1979 to 1983. He received his Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Washington in Seattle in 1979.
Over the years, Bill has served on the Board of the Bank
Administration Institute and chaired its strategic issues
and regulatory affairs committees. He has served as a
consultant to the World Bank, the General Accounting Office,
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of
Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, and many private
corporations and associations.
Stan Ivie
Stan Ivie is the Regional Director for the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation's San Francisco Region, which includes
California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and the
Federated States of Micronesia. As Regional Director for the
San Francisco Region, Mr. Ivie leads approximately 450
employees and directs the FDIC's supervision programs for
risk management, compliance and consumer protection at
roughly 770 insured depository institutions with $2.6
trillion in assets. Previously, Mr. Ivie served as the
Regional Director for the FDIC's Dallas Region.
Mr. Ivie also serves on the Corporation's Human Resources
Committee, an executive steering committee responsible for
developing policy recommendations and monitoring
implementation of corporate human resource strategies.
Mr. Ivie has enjoyed a 24-year career with the FDIC. Prior
to becoming Regional Director for the Dallas Region in July
2005, he served concurrently as the Deputy Director for its
resolutions division in Dallas, Texas, and as Interim
Director for the Office of Public Affairs in Washington,
D.C. As Deputy Director, he directed the resolutions
division's field staff and was responsible for the timely
resolution of failing financial institutions throughout the
nation. In his public affairs capacity, Mr. Ivie managed the
FDIC's media office and administered its external web site,
www.fdic.gov. Mr. Ivie was recognized as the 2004 recipient
of the Chairman's Executive of the Year Award.
As Assistant Director for the resolutions division in
Washington, D.C., he was a principal advisor to the Director
and was responsible for internal and external
communications, strategic planning, policy, management
reporting, public and governmental affairs, and
international relations. Mr. Ivie served as a member of the
Board of Directors of Superior Federal Bank, FSB, in
Chicago, Illinois, a $2 billion financial institution that
operated as an open-bank conservatorship, and as resolution
coordinator for Hamilton Bank, N.A., a $1.3 billion
international trade finance bank in Miami, Florida.
Mr. Ivie has served as a senior instructor at multi-national
training conferences throughout Central America, and as a
guest speaker for the Financial Stability Institute at the
Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Mr. Ivie also served as a professional staff member for the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the U.S.
House of Representatives under a fellowship program.
Mr. Ivie graduated Cum Laude from Southern Oregon University
in 1982 with a B.S. in business administration.
Kay E. Kowitt
Kay Kowitt is the Deputy Comptroller for the Western
District Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Based in
Denver, CO, she is responsible for the supervision of 325
national banks located in 21 states, and supervises a staff
of 310 people, who operate out of 11 field offices and 7
satellite offices.
Prior to becoming the Deputy Comptroller, Ms. Kowitt worked
in Washington, D.C., serving as the Senior Advisor to the
Senior Deputy Comptroller for Mid-Size/Community Bank
Supervision. She has been with the OCC for 29 years and has
also functioned as a field manager and problem bank analyst
in San Francisco, California, and a field examiner in
Portland, Oregon.
Ms. Kowitt is a graduate of the University of Oregon, with a
degree in Management.
Rosemarie Oda
As an attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Rosemarie
Oda has deep expertise in federal and state banking
regulation, and has the unique distinction of having held
high-ranking positions at both a federal bank regulatory
agency and a state banking department. For three years, Ms.
Oda was the General Counsel of the Department of Financial
Institutions for the State of California (DFI). In that
capacity, she regulated state-chartered banks, trust
companies, savings and loan associations, industrial banks,
credit unions, transmitters of money abroad, payment
instrument companies, and insurance premium finance
companies. Prior to this position, Ms. Oda was the District
Counsel for the Western District Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency (OCC), the agency which regulates national
banks, for nearly five years. She worked for the OCC for 17
years, including at the OCC's Washington, D.C. headquarters,
in the Enforcement and Compliance, Legal Advisory and
Legislative and Regulatory Analysis divisions.
At the firm, Ms. Oda has worked on the bank and S&L mergers,
two bank holding company acquisitions of banks, closings of
a credit card bank, a foreign bank agency and two foreign
bank branches, an application for opening a foreign bank
branch, analyzed the impact of the SEC's Proposed Regulation
B and final Regulation R on bank wholesale activities, and
worked on the conversion of a member bank to nonmember
status, reviewed a corporate credit union repurchase
agreement arrangement, and reviewed the potential
acquisition of a trust company and an industrial bank. She
has also worked on issues involving: bank insurance
activities, anti-money laundering, privacy, licensing and
regulatory issues for both consumer and commercial finance
lenders, transmitters of money abroad, consumer laws,
letters of credit, foreign exchange, and the formation of
two internet finance lenders. Ms. Oda has worked on issues
involving innovative internet P2P microfinance and forex
platforms and represented a spot trading platform in
biodiesel, and an Internet gift card platform. She has
worked on credit card fraud and other issues for credit
unions and has worked on electricity derivatives for a
foreign bank. For retailers, she has worked on stored value
card issues, fraudulent use of credit cards, and
telemarketing calls. She has also worked on public utility
regulatory issues. Most recently, she has advised banks,
companies and directors on TARP issues and regulatory
enforcement actions against banks, and acquisition of a bank
by a private equity fund.
Ms. Oda currently serves as Chair of the Board of the
Financial Women's Association Scholarship Fund. She is a
past Chair of the San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association,
and past Chair of the California State Bar Association
Financial Institutions Committee ("FIC"). She has spoken
several times at various California Bankers Association ("CBA")
Regulatory Compliance and Bank Counsel Seminars. Ms. Oda
serves on the CBA Independent Bank Directors' Council, has
served on its Task Force on Corporate Governance, helped
produce an acclaimed CBA survey on corporate governance, and
currently participates in the CBA Director Certification
Program twice a year. She has spoken on Preemption at the
American Bar Association Joint Business Law Section Spring
Meeting, and the ABA Commercial Lending and Banking Law
seminar. She has also spoken on Industrial Banks and on
Credit Union Conversions.
Ms. Oda is a member of the permanent faculty of the American
Bar Association's Basic Banking Law Seminar, which is held
twice a year, where she teaches the Dual Banking System. In
2006, she served as Moderator for a distinguished panel on
Conversions (and Acquisitions by Banks) of Credit Unions,
and in 2007 she chaired a panel on the Treasury Blueprint
for Reform for the FIC. Ms. Oda serves on the Board of the
Chevron Federal Credit Union and was formerly a founding
director of New Resource Bank in San Francisco, the first
green bank in the country, where she served on the audit and
compliance committees.
Program Details
| What: |
"Hot
Issues in Financial Regulation" |
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| When: |
Monday June
22nd, from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM |
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| Where: |
The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell Street, San
Francisco |
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| Program
Format: |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM...Registration & Networking
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM...Lunch and Panel Presentation
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM...Q&A and Networking |
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| Cost: |
Members - $35;
Non-members and guests - $50 |
REGISTRATION
There are 5 ways to pre-register:
1. Register online. Online registration is now closed.
2. Print and mail the following form to FWA, P.O. Box
26143, San Francisco, CA 94126
3. Print and fax the following form to 415-586-6606
4. Send an email to
5. Call Rhoda Singer at (415) 586-8599
Refund Policy: We are unable to issue refunds unless the
refund request is received 72 hours prior to the event.
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