This Committee offers attorneys of diverse professional backgrounds opportunities to educate themselves and update their knowledge, as well as to exchange ideas and discuss issues regarding the representation of financial institutions. The Committee also provides it members a unique opportunity to interact with regulators through discussions at Committee meetings and programs, by developing positions on pending regulatory proposals and through participation in the Committee's courses which involve the regulators as faculty and as students. Most importantly, the Committee provides a network of attorneys across the professional spectrum with whom to interact professionally. The Committee consists of subcommittees and task forces that incorporate a range of financial and regulatory law disciplines: mergers and acquisitions, loan workouts, all types of lending, retail banking, insurance services, capital markets activities, trust and investment services, payments services and electronic banking. There are subcommittees dealing with the issues of specific segments of the financial services industry: financial and bank holding companies, savings institutions, community banks. Finally, there are subcommittees and task forces dealing with major issues in financial institutions, including regulatory restructuring, compliance and examination, privacy, enforcement issues, international matters, legislation and troubled banks.
