CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION ACT
August 26, 2010 - 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Speaker: Virginia Bullerman Townes, Shareholder, Akerman Senterfitt

WHAT FINANCIAL REFORM MEANS TO YOUR BANK

The passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act will change the regulatory landscape for a wide variety of financial product and service providers and for big Wall Street firms. But how is it going to change life at your bank?

This two hour webinar will address the specific provisions of the Act that will change the regulatory structure and the ground rules for how banks operate and relate to their consumer customers and their service vendors. While the regulatory structure is still in place and most of the regulations are still to be promulgated, this webinar will tell you:

v What regulatory oversight will be for banks
v Whether the regulators will coordinate with each other and, if so, how.
v What existing laws and regulations have already been changed
- New “remitter” regulation
- New consumer residential mortgage requirements
- How the limitation on federal preemption affects bank holding company subsidiaries (and why state-chartered banks should care)
v What laws and regulations are scheduled to change
v How you can and should be involved in the regulatory process
v The timeline for change—What regulations are mandated and when must they take effect?

This webinar will offer a practical, plain-English survey of the provisions of the Act that will most directly affect Florida banks of all sizes and all charters.

Who Should Attend
Senior management focused on consumer lending and regulatory affairs; compliance and policy officers; and supervisors of consumer lending documentation and operations.

Meet the Speaker
Virginia Bullerman Townes is a shareholder in the General Litigation Section for the Orlando office of Akerman, Senterfitt. She has 25 years of experience in complex litigation, specializing in banking regulatory litigation, consumer class action defense, intellectual property, administrative law, and appellate law. She also serves as General Counsel for Florida Bankers Association.

She has been recognized by Chambers USA for her expertise in banking regulatory and finance law, by “The Best Lawyers in America” in the areas of banking law, commercial litigation and “bet-the-company” litigation and as a Florida Trend “superlawyer” in business and commercial litigation. She holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Ms. Townes is a member of the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida as well as all Florida courts.

Ms. Townes holds a B.S. with high honors from the University of South Florida and an M.A. from Florida State University. She is a 1982 graduate of Florida State University College of Law where she served as the executive editor of the Law Review and was named to Order of the Coif. She served as research aide to a justice of the Florida Supreme Court prior to joining Akerman Senterfitt as an associate in 1985.