Richard M. Whiting is Executive Director and General Counsel of The Financial Services Roundtable, a national association of the nation’s largest integrated financial services companies active in federal legislative, judicial and regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C.

In addition to prior positions within the Roundtable, he previously served as Senior Attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., General Counsel to the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, and 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 Chair of the Law School Teaching Subcommittee of the Banking Law Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA), Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Services, Boston University Law School, and member of the ABA Presidential Task Force on Financial Markets Repair.   In addition, he has held leadership positions in many professional organizations, including: Chair of the Legislative & Regulatory and the Bank Holding Company Subcommittees of the ABA’s Banking Law Committee; Chair of the Banking & Currency Subcommittee of the ABA’s Administrative Law Section; Board member & General Counsel of Women in Housing and Finance, Inc. and the WHF Foundation; Chairman of the Financial Institutions Committee of the D.C. Bar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Club;  Chair of the Financial Institutions Section and the Banking Committee of the Federal 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.  He also is former Chairman and current member of the Congressional Night Committee of the Shakespeare Theatre.  Also, he serves on the adjunct faculties (Federal Law of Financial Institutions) at Georgetown University Law Center 2010 (Vicennial Medal recipient) and the Boston College Law School.   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