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Bank Supervision
William L. Rutledge (bio)
Executive Vice President
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The Bank Supervision Group supervises and regulates financial institutions in the Second District. Its primary objective is to maintain safe and competitive U.S. and global banking systems. Staff in the Group assess the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions and operations of foreign banking organizations in the District through periodic onsite evaluations and offsite financial analysis and surveillance. The Group also evaluates firms' proposals to acquire or establish additional operations, and analyzes issues and developments to identify emerging supervisory risks and develop domestic and international supervisory policy.

Financial Sector Policy and Analysis
  • Provides technical expertise and analytical support to managers and staff in the Bank Supervision Group and elsewhere in the Bank on issues related to capital markets, risk management, banking reform, accounting, capital adequacy, electronic banking and payments policy.
  • Assists senior management in the development of both Federal Reserve System and international supervisory policy.
  • Analyzes and evaluates proposals by domestic and foreign banking institutions to undertake mergers and acquisitions, make foreign investments, and establish non-banking subsidiaries.
  • Analyzes the activities of foreign banking organizations to ensure consistency with U.S. law.
  • Contributes to the development of regulatory policies.
Relationship Management and Application
  • Develops and operates an oversight program for each supervised financial institution in the District.
  • Maintains relationships with financial institutions and with other domestic and foreign supervisory authorities.
  • Examiners serve as relationship specialists, financial analysts or surveillance analysts, and focus on large foreign banks, other foreign banks, large domestic banks, regional banks or community banks.
Resource and Logistics Management
  • Provides management, administrative and technical support services to the Bank Supervision Group with respect to resource planning and coordination, training and development, human resources management, automation planning and implementation, and information management.
Risk Management
  • In concert with Relationship Management, implements the supervisory plans for individual institutions, assessing their risk exposures and risk management frameworks, providing cross-institutional assessments, and assisting in developing sound practice guidelines and new examination procedures in response to the changing risks in the financial industry.
  • Examiners serve as risk specialists in the following areas: operational risk, market and liquidity risk, credit risk, legal and compliance risk, or insurance risk.
  • Financial analysts provide cross-institutional analyses and identify emerging risks in credit and capital markets.