ARTICLES – Thomas P. Vartanian
May 28, 2019, The Hill – A Broken Accounting System in Need of Repair https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/445753-a-broken-accounting-system-in-need-of-repair
May 19, 2019, The Hill – The Unintended Consequences of Interest Rate Caps https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/444334-the-unintended-consequences-of-interest-rate-caps
April 17, 2019, American Banker (BankThink) – With Stress Test, Less is More https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/with-stress-tests-less-is-more?brief=00000160-700b-dbf5-a562-788b36110000
February 26, 2019, American Banker (BankThink) – Criticism of BB&T-SunTrust deal is overblown https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/criticism-of-bb-t-suntrust-deal-is-overblown
February 3, 2019, The Hill – The Bigger Data Gets, The Bigger the Risks it Poses https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/428087-the-bigger-big-data-gets-the-bigger-the-risks-it-poses
December 12, 2018, The Hill – Nefarious nations will take the lead on AI if the US doesn’t https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/421059-nefarious-nations-will-take-the-lead-on-ai-if-the-us-doesnt
November 16, 2018, The Hill – Financial overregulation wasted the last eight years https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/417104-financial-overregulation-wasted-the-last-eight-years
November 6, 2018, American Banker (BankThink) – Financial technology needs rules of engagement https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/financial-technology-needs-rules-of-engagement
Sept 20, 2018, American Banker (BankThink) – Why reg relief is moving in the right direction https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/why-reg-relief-is-moving-in-the-right-direction
SPEECHES AND PANELS – Thomas Vartanian
DATE | SPONSOR | TOPIC | COMMENTS |
June 24, 2019
3:30 – 4:00 pm |
Financial Managers Society | Financial Regulation and Technology: The Coming Revolution | Annual Forum for 400 Bank CFO’s, Treasurers and Financial Managers |
May 16, 2019
8:00 am – 6:00 pm |
LEC/Program on Financial Regulation & Technology | The Future of Financial Regulation:
A Discussion with Craig Phillips, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Panel 1: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (Moderator) Panel 4: The Evolving Regulatory Ecosystem (Moderator) |
Inaugural Policy Conference for the LEC/Program |
May 15, 2019
8:00 – 9:00 pm |
Tucker Carlson Tonight | Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez Loan Shark Protection Act | |
May 15, 2019 | Nelson Mullins Annual Public Policy Forum | Financial Regulation, Economic Crisis & the Technology Revolution: Who Is Determining Our Economic Future? | Law Firm forum for regulators, Congressman and others
(101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C., 20001) |
April 15, 2019
2:00 – 4:00 pm |
Cantor Investor Conference the GSEs | The Future of the GSEs | 499 Park Ave, NY, NY |
April 12, 2019
10:00 – 10:45 am |
Minnesota Banking Law Committee of the Minnesota Bar | Financial Regulation and Technology: The Coming Revolution | 200 Minnesota financial services lawyers’ annual meeting |
April 10, 2019
5:00 – 6:00 pm |
Scalia Law School; Program on Financial Regulation & Technology | Meet the Policy Makers: A Discussion with Randall Quarles- Vice Chair of the Fed | Monthly series with Washington Policymakers |
April 4, 2019
2:00 – 3:00 pm |
Financial Managers Society | Artificial Intelligence & Financial Regulation | Webinar with AI experts from the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia |
April 3, 2019
10:45 am – 12:15 pm |
LEC | Open Banking: A New Era in Financial Services | Panel with Banking and FinTech Execs |
March 27, 2019
5:00 – 6:00 pm |
Scalia Law School; Program on Financial Regulation & Technology | Meet the Policy Makers: A Discussion with Joseph Otting | First of monthly series with Washington Policymakers |
March 14, 2019
2:00 – 3:00 pm |
Investment Advisers Association | FinTech and the Use of Big Data | Annual Compliance Conference for 400 Investment Advisors
(Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC) |
March 1, 2019
8:00 – 4:00 |
LEC/Program on Financial Regulation & Technology | AI, FinTech, Peer to Peer Financial Services and Administrative Judgment | First Research Roundtable for Inaugural Policy Conference for the LEC/Program |
February 20, 2019
5:00 – 8:00 pm |
Bank Policy Institute | Current Bank Regulatory Issues | Presentation at dinner with CEO’s of largest US banks
(DBGB, 2nd Floor, 931 H St NW, Washington, DC 20001) |
February 19, 2019
11:30 am – 1:30 pm |
Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy | Housing Finance & GSE Reform | Luncheon panel @ 2011 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW |
November 4, 2018
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm |
Reg Tech Enable DC 2019 | Strategic Partnerships: Panel discussion moderator with Brian Brooks (CoinBase), Kathy Reimann (Treliant) and Neima Ghamsari (BlendLabs) on tech deals | |
October 24, 2018
10:45 am – 12:15 pm |
Center for the Study of the Administrative State | Permits, Licenses and the Administrative State |
SPEECHES AND PANELS – Robert H. Ledig
DATE | SPONSOR | TOPIC |
May 20, 2019 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2019 Financial Markets Conference (Amelia Island, FL) |
Interview regarding data privacy |
May 16, 2019 | Law & Economics Center/Program on Financial Regulation & Technology (Arlington, VA) | The Future of Financial Regulation: |
April 4, 2019 | Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (Arlington, VA) | Legislative Update |
April 3, 2019 | Ninth Annual Financial Services Forum, Law & Economics Center, Scalia Law School (Arlington, VA) | Privacy and Data Use in the Financial Sector |
October 12, 2018 | Scalia Law Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (Arlington, VA) | A Different Perspective on Big Data (Moderator) |