Alex Teel
Partner /
Alex Teel is a partner at Capitol Counsel, LLC. He provides strategic advice to clients on legislative and regulatory matters affecting financial services, with a focus on payments, fintech, and banking policy. Teel has nearly 20 years of experience in Washington, including service as professional staff on the House Financial Services Committee, where his portfolio covered the Federal Reserve, international financial institutions, and emerging payments. While on the Hill, he organized some of Congress’s earliest hearings on bitcoin and blockchain, worked on the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization of 2012, and pushed through capital increases for the World Bank, IMF, IDA, and IFC. Teel also served as a designee to Chairman Emeritus Spencer Bachus and as a Legislative Assistant to Rep. Mick Mulvaney. Most recently, he was a Principal at Rich Feuer Anderson, where he managed engagements with financial services clients and led bipartisan coalitions to pass reforms and defeat burdensome regulations. He holds a master’s degree in applied economics and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Alabama.
Education
- University of Alabama – M.A., Applied Economics
- University of Alabama – B.S., Finance
Positions Held
- Rich Feuer Anderson, Washington, D.C. – Principal
- Office of Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Committee on Financial Services, Washington, D.C. – Designee and Professional Staff
- Office of Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Washington, D.C. – Legislative Assistant
- House Financial Services Committee, Washington, D.C. – Professional Staff
- Office of Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Washington, D.C. – Staff Assistant and Systems Administrator
MEMBERSHIPS/RECOGNITION
- Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce – Member, Business Advocacy Committee
- Exchequer Club of Washington – Member
Successes
Teel architected an advocacy campaign that led to overturning a CFPB rule that would have subjected digital wallet providers to direct supervision. He also pushed to expand payment services at the Federal Reserve and to exempt digital remittance providers from the new tax enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Teel has also helped draft legislation that saw Congress reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States and fund new capital rounds for the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and other multilateral development institutions.