RICHARD M. WHITING is Executive Director and General Counsel of The Financial Services Roundtable, a national association of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies active in federal legislative, judicial, and regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C.

In addition to prior positions within the Roundtable and one of its predecessor organizations (the Association of Bank Holding Companies), Mr. Whiting previously served as Senior Attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. and as Law Clerk to the Honorable Albert V. Bryan, Sr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Mr. Whiting graduated from the Boston College Law School (where he was Articles Editor for the Boston College Law Review), the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University, and Binghamton University, New York.

He currently is Chairman of the Legislative and Regulatory Subcommittee of the American Bar's Banking Law Committee. Also, he is a former General Counsel and Board of Director of Women in Housing and Finance, Inc. and the WHF Foundation, as well as Vice Chairman of the Bank Holding Company Subcommittee of the Banking Law Committee of the American Bar Association. He is immediate past Chairman of the Financial Institutions Committee of the D.C. Bar; former Chancellor of the Exchequer Club; immediate Past Chairman of the Banking Committee of the Federal Bar Association, and past Chairman of the Banking and Currency Subcommittee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Whiting is a member of the Advisory Board of the Banking Policy Report, the Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report and the Banking Law Institute. Also, he is an adjunct faculty member (Federal Law of Financial Institutions) at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Whiting has authored several articles and books, and speaks frequently on legal and policy issues affecting the financial services industry.

Email: Rich@fsround.org