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Financial Services

Our Financial Services Team is one of the strongest advocating on financial service issues in Washington, housing a breadth and depth of experience on Capitol Hill and at regulatory agencies.

Our team is comprised of seasoned policy and political experts with senior-level experience across the financial and regulatory ecosystem, with decades of experience advocating on financial services issues.

Project Leads

Warren Tryon

Our team has successfully represented and advocated for:

  • Large financial institutions
  • Regional and community banks
  • Insurance and reinsurance companies
  • Financial services trade associations
  • Payment processors
  • Investment banks
  • Commodity trading firms and end users of swaps
  • Derivatives trading platforms (options, swaps, and futures)
  • Financial services coalitions
  • Mortgage lending companies
  • Housing and community development non-
    profits
  • For-profit housing developers and managers
  • Real estate trades
  • Credit card banks
  • Broker/dealer trades and companies
  • Financial tech trades and companies
  • Pre-paid card companies
  • Indirect auto finance banks

Capitol One

Finance

Intuit

Fintech

Pacific Life

Insurance

Our team has worked on a diverse range of issues and has substantial expertise and experience in:

BANKING, FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANIES, PAYMENTS, CONSUMER CREDIT

The Capitol Counsel Financial Services Team has been involved in a range of banking issues including:

  • Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
  • Dodd-Frank reforms
  • Oversight by banking regulators;
  • Capital and liquidity standards
  • Lending and consumer issues
  • Credit card reforms
  • Federal deposit insurance reform
  • Cyber and technology issues
  • Mobile payments
  • Credit scores and credit repair
  • Pre-paid card and EMV/Chip rules;
  • Operation Choke Point
  • Payment processor liabilities.

INSURANCE, REINSURANCE

Our Financial Services Team has experience and expertise on insurance policy and regulatory issues, including:

  • Federal Insurance Office
  • SIFI designations and FSOC
  • International capital standards
  • Reinsurance issues
  • Flood insurance
  • Dodd-Frank reforms
  • Surplus lines
  • Proposals on changes in insurance regulation
  • Annuities and life insurance policies
  • NARAB
  • Interstate sales of insurance products.

REAL ESTATE, MORTGAGES, GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES, HOUSING

The Capitol Counsel Financial Services Team has worked on a range of housing and mortgage issues including:

  • Government-sponsored enterprise reform
  • QM and QRM rules and standards
  • Mortgage servicing issues
  • FHFA
  • FHA programs and reform
  • Consumer issues
  • HUD housing programs
  • Foreclosures and loan modifications
  • Neighborhood stabilization
  • Securitization
  • Title insurance reform
  • Real estate sales
  • Commissions

SECURITIES, DERIVATIVES, COMMODITIES, EXCHANGES, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Our Financial Services Team has worked on various accounting issues including:

  • Sarbanes-Oxley
  • Financial market reforms under the Dodd-Frank Act
  • Proxy and corporate governance issues
  • Credit rating agencies and mortgage-backed securities
  • Broker/dealer issues along with DOL’s fiduciary rules
  • High-frequency trading and market structure
  • Launching of IPOs; money market funds and asset management; federal and non-profit accounting rule-
    makings; market liquidity and capital standards; and end-user and swap regulations.