The agenda for the Consumer Bankers Association’s (CBA) 2019 annual convention in Washington D.C. includes a slew of sessions diving into the potential benefits of technological innovations from a regulatory and business growth perspective.
Dodd Frank Update will be there, April 1-3, offering live updates from sessions featuring federal regulators Comptroller of the Currency and acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Joseph Otting and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams, as well as various industry insiders, including top banking executives from Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Huntington, Fifth Third Bank, PNC and more.
The opening session keynote address will be given by Thasunda Brown Duckett, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, who will talk about methods for overcoming adversity on the path to becoming a successful leader. She will be followed by CBA President and CEO Richard Hunt who will be joined by several other banking leaders in talking about the importance for individual banks to identify their No. 1 priority that plays to their own unique strengths.
The Day 2 general session will feature Buckley LLP Partner Jonice Gray Tucker, Cowen Washington Research Group Managing Director Jaret Seiberg and Hunt covering topics such as marijuana banking, housing finance reform, Community Reinvestment Act issues, student lending matters, changes to the CFPB and political developments that could be on the horizon. That discussion will be preceded by the 2019 CBA Award ceremony and a discussion about mergers and acquisitions between Hunt and Second Curve Capital CEO Tom Brown.
The third and final general session will tackle the topic of privacy laws and methods banks can use to identify and stop fraud, and will conclude with speeches by Otting and McWilliams.
Among the topics to be discussed during the breakout sessions are changes in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) enforcement and supervision trends under former acting director Mick Mulvaney and how Director Kathy Kraninger is likely to handle those matters going forward, as well as approaches financial institutions can utilize to leverage new technology to their advantage and also protect themselves from risks associated with new innovations. CBA has recommended many changes to the CFPB's procedures, structure and its rules and regulations pertaining to small-dollar lending, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements and more in the first months of 2019.
Follow along on our website for key takeaways from the conference’s educational sessions, as well as news about news about CBA executive staff changes. Follow us on Twitter @DoddFrankUpdate for live daily updates from the show.