Tougher Laws Woven into Basel II: What You Need to Know
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Nancy Hunt
Acting Associate Director of the Capital Markets Branch,
Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Nancy Hunt is currently the Acting Associate Director of the Capital Markets Branch. She joined the FDIC two years ago as a Senior Policy Analyst. Her regulatory experience includes working at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a Risk Expert in the Capital Policy group, and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHE0, now FHFA) working on the risk-based capital rule for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. She also has an extensive background in the private sector where she worked for a number of years at Bankers Trust and then at the Industrial Bank of Japan.

She is currently the FDIC’s representative to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Policy Development Group.

She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in government and from New York University Graduate School of Business (Stern) with an M.B.A. in economics.

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Michael L. Stevens
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Policy
Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Mike serves as the Senior Vice President for Regulatory Policy at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). In this capacity, Mike represents the state banking system in the development of federal regulatory policy in the areas of consumer protection and safety and soundness. He is also responsible for any issues related to the coordination and cooperation between state and federal regulators. Mike serves as the staff director for the Regulatory Committee, State Federal Working Group, and the FFIEC’s State Liaison Committee. Prior to this assignment, Mike worked in all facets of CSBS’s Professional Development Division. He is a frequent instructor and speaker on bank examination, bank financial analysis and regulatory issues. Mike serves on the faculty of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado, the Texas Tech Bank School and the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management. Prior to joining CSBS in 1999, Mike was a bank examiner for the Iowa Division of Banking for 11 years.

Mike is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He lives in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife, Becki, and two children.

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Alok Sinha
Principal
Deloitte & Touche LLP

Alok has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services industry specializing in enterprise wide risk modeling, portfolio analytics, pricing and performance measurement

As part of the Capital Markets Group, he leads Deloitte’s Basel 2 and Economic Capital practice in the United States Alok has assisted clients with projects relating to capital allocation, risk based pricing, counterparty and portfolio risk measurement, credit portfolio valuation, and credit risk assessment

He has also been engaged to provide advice and guidance on Basel 2 implementations at leading financial institutions. He has performed several recent projects assessing the effectiveness of internal credit rating systems. He served on the RMA task force to provide the industry’s response to the Basel Committee, and recommend revisions to US regulators

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Michael E. Bleier
Partner
Reed Smith LLP

Michael is a member of the Financial Industry Group and a member of Financial Services Regulatory Group. Michael joined Reed Smith after serving for nearly 14 years as General Counsel for Mellon Financial Corporation and Mellon Bank, NA, and as manager of legal affairs. Prior to joining Mellon in 1982, he was in the Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC for 11 years; when he left the Federal Reserve he was Assistant General Counsel, responsible for the bank holding company area. At Mellon, Michael was actively involved in its expansion, both in the banking and nonbanking areas and in its dealings with the federal and state bank regulatory authorities, as well as with the Congress and the state legislatures. He played a key role in Mellon's growth and transformation into primarily a fee-based business. He was intimately involved in Mellon's Pennsylvania statewide expansion, the creation and implementation of Mellon's good bank/bad bank transaction, the transformative and groundbreaking Boston Company and Dreyfus acquisitions, and in dealing with the federal regulators and Congress on the Basel II risk-based capital rules.

At Reed Smith he has counseled General Counsel clients, filed expansion applications with the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC, and also also advised financial institution clients on an array of regulatory matters.

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Tougher Laws Woven into Basel II: What You Need to Know
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