PHILADELPHIA, May 23-
Senior lending officers from some of the nation's leading banks and financial services firms will be joined by economists and regulators at the 2000 Consumer Risk Management Conference, June 5 - 6 at Chicago's Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel. RMA, the international association of lending, credit and risk management professionals, and The Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) are sponsors of the conference.
Featured participants will include F. William Vandiver, Jr., vice chairman, Bank of America; Julie L. Williams, chief counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC); Diane C. Swonk, executive vice president and chief economist, Bank One Corporation; and Robert J. Higgins, president, commercial and retail banking, FleetBoston Financial Corp. Joining them will be senior consumer business executives, consumer credit risk managers and underwriting managers from all consumer sectors seeking new and effective ways to manage consumer risk in a rapidly evolving financial marketplace.
RMA and CBA heads Allen Sanborn and Joseph Belew will open the conference and Bank of America's Vandiver will deliver the keynote address, followed by Bank One's Swonk who will focus on the economic outlook. As luncheon speaker, the OCC's Williams will review current regulatory concerns about consumer lending. Michael Staten, Ph.D., director of Georgetown University's Consumer Research Center, will discuss the reading and predicting of bankruptcy and delinquency trends. Marcia Sullivan, vice president, director of government relations, CBA, and Carol Myers, senior vice president, Fleet Credit Card Services, will lead a panel presentation on product marketing under the new privacy regulations.
FleetBoston's Higgins will lead the second day's presentations discussing the redefining of consumer lending following the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act of 1999. George Morris, managing director, Oliver Wyman & Company, will review the latest trends in consumer credit portfolio risk management. A panel presentation - "Managing Customer Risk in a Multi-Product Environment" - will include Darcy Walker, senior vice president, Discover Financial Services; John Watkins, vice president, Citibank; and Steven Alexander, executive vice president, FleetBoston. Mark Zandi, Ph.D., chief economist, RFA/Dismal Science Inc., will address the household credit cycle.
RMA is the only financial services trade association that specializes in promoting prudent and effective credit risk management practices across the entire banking and lending spectrum for institutions of all sizes. Its membership consists of more than 3,000 financial service providers. These institutions are represented in the association by more than 18,000 commercial loan and credit personnel in 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and numerous foreign cities, including Hong Kong, Singapore and London.
For more information, call Pam Martin, Director of Regulatory Relations and Communications, at 215-446-4092 or e-mail mailto:pmartin@rmahq.org