Washington partner and chair of the Firm's Financial Institutions Transactions Group, Thomas P. Vartanian, is currently being featured in a broadcast by Bloomberg Law. Lee Pacchia of Bloomberg interviews Mr. Vartanian about the implications of various proposed versions of US banking law reform, covering a wide range of subjects including bank capital, the too big to fail issue, new resolution processes for systemically significant financial companies and consumer protection. To listen to the full interview, please click here (http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Politics/Law/vBrDi4DVGZ0s.mp3).
Mr. Vartanian draws in this interview upon his 34 years of experience, which includes his years as General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (predecessor of the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Housing Finance Agency) and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (later merged into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), where he also was responsible for legal issues affecting the Federal Home Loan Bank System and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac"), and as Special Assistant to the Chief Counsel and Senior Trial Litigator at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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