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Deposit Insurance and Risk Based Assessments
Ike Jones
Vice President and Senior Legislative Counsel
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)
Ike Jones is Vice President and Senior Legislative Counsel for the Independent Community Bankers of America. In his position, he lobbies Congress on a variety of issues important to community banks, and he provides legal analyses of legislation to senior management. Among other accomplishments since joining ICBA in 2007, he led ICBA’s successful effort to keep Farm Credit System expansion out of 2007 Farm Bill, arranged for the introduction of regulatory relief legislation important to ICBA members, and successfully lobbied for inclusion of community bank provisions in Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Before joining ICBA, he was a Democratic Counsel to the House Financial Services Committee from 2000 to 2002. He was most recently at America’s Community Bankers, where he was Vice President and Legislative Counsel for almost three years. At ACB, he was the senior Democratic lobbyist for ACB, concentrating on a variety of banking issues (including regulatory relief and deposit insurance reform), taxes and Federal Home Loan Bank issues. He was the tax lobbyist for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association from 2002 through 2004. Before joining the Financial Services Committee staff, he served as legislative counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Before coming to Washington in 1989, he was an Assistant Attorney general for the State of Louisiana.
Nicholas J. Ketcha, Jr.
Managing Director
FinPro, Inc.
Nicholas has primary responsibility for all regulatory and compliance related engagements for the firm. He is also the principal architect of the Quarterly Bank Fiduciary Package. Nicholas has also served on the faculty of the National School of Banking at Fairfield University.
Prior to joining FinPro, Nicholas served as Director of the Division of Banking for the State of New Jersey. He joined the State after his retirement from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1999. At the time of his retirement from the FDIC, he was Director of its Division of Supervision in Washington, D.C. He began his career with FDIC in 1965 and rose through the ranks with positions including Regional Director of the FDIC’s New York region. He was named Director of the Division of Supervision in June 1995.
During his term as NJ Banking Director, Nicholas served as Chairman of the State Liaison Committee to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and as Chairman of the Regulatory Committee of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. While at the FDIC, he also served as a member of the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision from June 1995 to December 1998 and served two terms as Chairman of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Task Force on Supervision.
Nicholas earned a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Scranton and is a graduate and former faculty member of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
John L. Douglas
Partner, Corporate Department
Paul Hastings
John Douglas practices in both the firm's Washington, D.C. and Atlanta offices. He concentrates his practice in the regulation of financial institutions, in mergers and acquisitions and other transactions involving banks and thrifts, and in advising officers, directors, and shareholders in such institutions.
Mr. Douglas was appointed General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1987 and continued in that capacity through 1989. This was a period of unprecedented stress on the financial system, and he was involved in the major bank failures and restructurings of the late 1980’s, participated in the landmark Financial Institutions Regulatory Reform and Restructuring Act of 1989 and assisted in the organization of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Mr. Douglas is a frequent lecturer and author on matters relating to financial institutions. He is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report and the author of “The U.S. Approach to the Regulation of E-Commerce,” 2 Business Law International 171 (2001); "Banking and Technology," University of North Carolina Law School Banking Law Institute, Volume 1, page 37 (1997); "Deposit Insurance Reform," 27 Wake Forest Law Review 11 (1992); and "Deposit Insurance, Current Problems and Proposals," in Current Issues Affecting Central Banks, Volume 1, page 191 (International Monetary Fund, 1992).
Mr. Douglas is a director of the Financial Services Volunteer Corp., a non-profit organization assisting countries as the work to develop strong banking and capital markets systems. In that capacity, he has advised the governments of Russia, Indonesia and Egypt, among others. He is also a member of the Financial Markets Tribunal of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, and a member of the Executive Committee of the University of North Carolina Law School’s Banking Law Symposium. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Best Banking Lawyers, Law Business Research’s An International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers and The Financial Times’ Who’s Who Legal International (Banking). He was recently named to the "BTI Client Service All-Star Team," a group of 113 lawyers recognized for exceptional service to Fortune 100 clients.
Mr. Douglas earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia, where he was an editor of the Georgia Law Review, a member of the Order of the Coif, and a Woodruff Scholar. He earned a B.A., cum laude, in economics from Davidson College. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and the Bar of Washington D.C.
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