Neiman Joining PwC
Former New York Banking Superintendent Richard Neiman will be joining PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Neiman, who had long been pegged as a candidate for comptroller of the currency, will be chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers' foreign bank regulatory practice and vice chairman of its global regulatory practice. He will take a lead role in building the U.S. regulatory practice across financial sectors and will be active on Dodd-Frank implementation, Basel III issues and consumer protection.
"One thing I really did want to make sure I was doing was that I was continued to stay engaged on U.S. and regulatory issues and continued to work toward promoting a greater financial stability particularly around issues related to governance, risk management, and consumer compliance, and these are all areas where Pricewaterhouse has continued to be a leader in the field," Neiman said.
Neiman spent four years as New York banking superintendent. He also served on the Troubled Asset Relief Program's Congressional Oversight Panel. Before joining the New York State Banking Department he was the chairman, president and chief executive of TD Bank USA.
Castle Joins Piper
Former House Financial Services Committee member Michael Castle, R-Del., has joined DLA Piper's government affairs group, advising clients on financial services, trade and other areas.
Castle spent nine terms as Delaware's sole House member, and also served as governor.
He stepped down last year to run for the state's open Senate seat, but lost his party's nomination to Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O'Donnell in one of the more closely watched midterm primary battles. Chris Coons, a Democrat, won in the general election.
Castle will split his time between DLA Piper's offices in New York, Washington and Wilmington, Del.
Successor at OCC
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that David K. Wilson, an agency veteran, will become senior deputy comptroller for bank supervision policy and chief national bank examiner.
He will succeed Tim Long, who is retiring at the end of June after 32 years at the agency.
Wilson has been at the OCC for nearly 30 years, with roles including large-bank examiner-in-charge, large-bank credit team leader and, most recently, deputy comptroller for credit and market risk. In 2008 he was named a senior national bank examiner.
Before becoming senior deputy comptroller, Long was the examiner-in-charge for both Wells Fargo Bank and NationsBank; deputy comptroller for large-bank supervision; and senior deputy comptroller for midsize/community bank supervision.
Obama Taps Eberly
President Obama has nominated Janice Eberly, a finance professor at Northwestern University, to be the assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy. She would succeed Alan Krueger, who announced his departure in October to return to academia.
Eberly has been at Northwestern since 1997.
He was also a faculty member at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisors and is now on advisory panels for the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Congressional Budget Office.
Reunion at MBA
The Mortgage Bankers Association has a new chief of staff.
Marcia Davies will report to the group's new CEO, David Stevens.
Davies previously was a senior adviser to Stevens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Before that she spent 21 years at Freddie Mac.
Davies "will be responsible for facilitating the implementation of strategic initiatives that require cross-functional integration within MBA, its staff and its members," the trade group said.
CSBS Adds Sussman
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors has hired former Capitol Hill staffer Sandy Sussman as an associate general counsel, focusing on congressional affairs.
Over the past 10 years Sussman concentrated on financial services issues while on congressional staffs. In the previous Congress he was the legislative counsel/director for former Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., who was on the House Financial Services panel.
Sussman also was government affairs director for the Real Estate Services Provider Council.
