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Bank Failures & the Regulatory Response with Former Fed Vice Chair Randy Quarles: BI Webinar

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Mismanaged interest rate risk and deposit concentrations have shaken the market confidence in banks seemingly overnight. Randy Quarles, Chairman of the Cynosure Group and former Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, joins Herman Chan, Senior Analyst covering regional banks and fintechs at Bloomberg Intelligence, for a discussion on the factors that have contributed to the market turmoil and the regulatory response that follows the failures of SVB and Signature Bank.

Speakers

Herman Chan

Senior U.S. Regional Banks Analyst

Bloomberg Intelligence

Herman Chan is the senior equity research analyst covering regional banks at Bloomberg Intelligence. He provides in-depth analysis on banks' balance sheet strategy, interest rate positioning, credit quality indicators and growth trends. Before joining Bloomberg, he was a senior manager in investor relations at M&T Bank. A CFA charterholder, he has a decade of sell-side equity research experience, including senior analyst covering mid cap banks at Wells Fargo Securities. Earlier in his career, he conducted research on financial institutions at Citi Equity Research, Wachovia Securities and Prudential Equity Group.

Randy Quarles

Chairman, The Cynosure Group

Cynosure Group

Randal Quarles is Chairman and founder of The Cynosure Group, alternative asset and wealth advisory firm. From October of 2017 through October 2021, Mr. Quarles was Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, serving as the system’s first Vice Chairman for Supervision, charged with ensuring stability of the financial sector. From December 2018 until December 2021, he also served as the Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, a global body established after the Great Financial Crisis to coordinate international efforts to enhance financial stability. He was a key architect of the Fed’s crisis response in March of 2020, credited with maintaining the function of the US and global financial systems, as described in the books Limitless and Trillion Dollar Triage. Earlier in his career, Mr. Quarles was a long-time partner at The Carlyle Group, a leading global private equity firm, and before that a partner at the international law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was co-head of their financial services practice. Mr. Quarles has been a close advisor to every Republican Treasury Secretary for the last 35 years, including as Under Secretary of the Treasury in the Bush ’43 Administration. He has represented the United States in meetings of the Group of Seven, Group of Twenty, and Financial Stability Forum, and was also US Executive Director of the IMF.

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