The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi,a Pakistani financier. The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening,BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$20 billion,making it the seventh largest private bank in the world.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is an independent bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury that was established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter,regulate,and supervise all national banks and thrift institutions and the federally licensed branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. The acting Comptroller of the Currency is Michael J. Hsu,who took office on May 10,2021.
The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) was a United States federal agency under the Department of the Treasury that chartered,supervised,and regulated all federally chartered and state-chartered savings banks and savings and loans associations. It was created in 1989 as a renamed version of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board,another federal agency. Like other U.S. federal bank regulators,it was paid by the banks it regulated. The OTS was initially seen as an aggressive regulator,but was later lax. Declining revenues and staff led the OTS to market itself to companies as a lax regulator in order to get revenue.
John D. Hawke Jr. was an American lawyer who served as the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance from 1995 to 1998,and was the United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1998 to 2004.
John C. Dugan is an American attorney who served as the 29th comptroller of the currency from August 2005 to August 14,2010. He has since worked as the chairman of Citigroup.
Kevin James O'Connor is an American lawyer who serves as vice president,General Counsel &Government Relations for the Carrier Corporation. Previously,he served as an attorney appointed by President George W. Bush and was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate as Connecticut’s 48th United States Attorney in 2002. From January to April 2006,O'Connor served as an associate deputy attorney general. In 2007,O'Connor served as Chief of Staff to United States Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. In 2008,O'Connor was unanimously confirmed as Associate Attorney General of the United States,the number three position at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),a post he held until 2009,when he left the DOJ to join the law firm of Bracewell and Giuliani.
Richard H. Neiman is an American financial advisor and attorney who served as the 43rd Superintendent of Banks of New York,managing the New York State Banking Department.
Luis Alberto Aguilar is an American lawyer and former U.S. government official.
Eugene A. "Gene" Ludwig is an American business leader and expert on banking regulation,risk management,and fiscal policy. From 1993 to 1998 he served as Comptroller of the Currency.
Promontory Financial Group,a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM,is a global consulting firm that advises clients on a variety of financial services matters,including regulatory issues,compliance,risk management,liquidity,restructuring,acquisitions,due diligence,internal investigations and cyber security.
Armando Falcon,Jr. is the former Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO),a position he held from 1999 to 2005. During this period,he led an investigation of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,is credited with raising early warning signs about the risks posed by both companies.
Thomas James Curry is an American government official who served as the 30th Comptroller of the Currency of the United States from April 9,2012,until May 5,2017. Prior to becoming Comptroller of the Currency,Curry served as a Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and as the chairman of the NeighborWorks America Board of Directors. He was born in Greenwich,Connecticut and raised in Stamford,Connecticut.
Martin James Gruenberg is an American attorney who has been chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) since 2023. Gruenberg previously served as FDIC chairman from 2012 to 2018;as well as on an acting basis from 2005 to 2006 and 2011 to 2012.
William "Bill" Grady Hamrick III is the Georgia Statewide Business Court Judge. Judge Hamrick was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp on August 3,2022 and confirmed by the Georgia Legislature on September 14,2022 to be the Statewide Business Court Judge of Georgia and was sworn in on September 26,2022. Hamrick replaced Judge Walt Davis.
Joseph M. Otting is an American businessman and government official. He served as the 31st Comptroller of the Currency from November 27,2017 to May 29,2020.
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) is the financial regulatory agency of the special economic zone,the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC),in Dubai,United Arab Emirates. It is distinct from the UAE's federal Securities and Commodities Authority,whose jurisdiction covers the wider UAE outside the boundaries of the DIFC. It operates only within the special economic zone and is tasked with providing a regulatory environment of international standards.
Mehrsa Baradaran is an Iranian-American law professor specializing in banking law at the University of California,Irvine. Baradaran is a noted proponent of postal banking to expand financial services to underserved communities. Baradaran has also stated that postal banking will not be enough to close the racial wealth gap and more recently,has proposed the necessity of a "Black New Deal."
Keith A. Noreika is an American lawyer who specializes in the regulation of financial institutions. He served as Acting Comptroller of the Currency from May 5,2017,to November 27,2017,following the 30th Comptroller of the Currency,Thomas J. Curry,and preceding the 31st Comptroller of the Currency,Joseph Otting. Noreika rejoined the law firm of Simpson Thacher on January 8,2018. He joined Patomak Global Partners as Executive Vice President and Chairman of its Banking Supervision and Regulation Group on July 5,2022.
Brian P. Brooks is an American lawyer,banker,entrepreneur,technologist,and former government official. He served as Acting Comptroller of the Currency from May 29,2020,succeeding the 31st Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting,until January 14,2021. Brooks was nominated twice by President Donald Trump for a five-year term as Comptroller of the Currency,once during the 116th Congress,and once in the 117th Congress.
Saule Tarikhovna Omarova is a Kazakh-American attorney,academic,and public policy advisor. She was the nominee for comptroller of the currency before her nomination was withdrawn at her request on December 7,2021.
