The Financial Women's Association Of San Francisco, Women's Forum West and the SF Chapter of CalCPA
Presents
An Industry Leadership Series Event

"Financial Consumer Protection:
What You Need to Know"

The Financial Women's Association of San Francisco, Women's Forum West and SF Chapter of CalCPA present a moderated panel discussing the implications of recent laws and regulations on consumers, regulators, and the financial services industry.

Learn about changes to:

• Overdraft Fees;
• Mortgage disclosures and fees;
• Credit Card Disclosures and
• the creation of the Financial Consumer Protection Bureau

What is significant, how will the regulations be implemented, and what is next on the agenda?

Panelists:

• Tracy Basinger, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Paul Leonard, California Office Director, Center for Responsible Lending
• Lynn Sullivan, Chief Compliance Officer, Union Bank.

Moderator:

• Vanessa Washington, Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Bank of the West

About the Panelists & Moderator

Tracy A. Basinger, Vice President, Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Tracy Basinger has been with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for 20 years. She currently has official responsibility for the consumer compliance and CRA examination function for the 12th Federal Reserve District. In this role she is primarily responsible for ensuring that the Federal Reserve System's Risk-Focused Supervision Program and other relevant supervisory strategies with regard to consumer compliance and CRA are effectively implemented throughout the 12th district.

In addition, Ms. Basinger has oversight responsibility for the District's examination group. This includes responsibility for managing and developing all examination staff as well as overseeing administrative functions such as examination scheduling and examination support.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve System, Ms. Basinger held various operational positions at California financial institutions. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Hayward.

Paul Leonard, Director, California Office, Center for Responsible Lending
Paul A. Leonard directs the California office of the Center for Responsible Lending, a national policy and research organization working on lending issues affecting low-wealth households. The Center is a non-profit, non-partisan research and policy organization dedicated to protecting home ownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. CRL is affiliated with Self-Help, one of the nation's largest community development financial institutions. CRL has offices in Durham NC, Washington, DC and has recently opened its California office in Oakland.

Mr. Leonard previously served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1994 through 1998. Mr. Leonard has also been a consultant on housing, community development and social welfare issues, an Assistant Agency Director for Workforce and Human Services at the Alameda County, CA Social Services Agency and a senior research analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-profit policy and research organization in Washington DC.

Lynn Sullivan, Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Union Bank
Lynn was promoted to CCO in 2009 citing “her broad knowledge of the current regulatory and compliance climate”. Sullivan joined Union Bank in 2003 as vice president managing deposit operations and was quickly transferred within Compliance to oversee all Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering and Office of Foreign Assets Control (BSA/AML/OFAC) initiatives. In 2006, she was promoted to senior vice president and became the designated corporate BSA/ OFAC officer for the bank.

Sullivan currently manages a team responsible for enterprise-wide regulatory compliance for the bank and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Union Bank, Sullivan was a senior compliance officer at Providian Financial Corporation in San Francisco. She began her career as a paralegal at two well-known Bay Area law firms. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the UC Santa Barbara, and a paralegal certificate from the University of San Diego.

Vanessa Washington, Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Bank of the West

Vanessa Washington joined Bank of the West in 2006 as Executive Vice President and General Counsel and shortly thereafter assumed additional responsibilities for Compliance and Corporate Security. Ms. Washington serves as a member of the Bank's Executive Management Committee and reports to Chairman and CEO Michael Shepherd.

Before joining Bank of the West, Ms. Washington's prior positions included Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Catellus Development Corporation, a NYSE publicly traded REIT from 2001 to 2005 and Senior Vice President and Secretary of California Federal Bank and its publicly-traded parent Golden State Bancorp Inc. Ms. Washington began her legal career as a commercial real estate associate at Powell, Goldstein LLP in Atlanta, and gained further experience in commercial real estate work-outs at the former HomeFed Bank in San Diego.

Washington received her B. S. degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1981 and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley in 1984.

REGISTRATION

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