Brian D. Branson has been managing director at Stephens Inc. in Atlanta since April 2015. Previously, Branson served as managing director at Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc. in Atlanta. He served as a member of the Depository Investment Banking Group. Branson joined Sterne Agee in July 2010 and also focuses on bank and thrifts in the southeastern United States. Prior to joining Sterne Agee, he spent six and a half years at Sandler O'Neill + Partners, LP, providing transaction advisory services to southeastern financial institutions. He began his career in the Corporate Finance Analyst program at Stephens Inc. Branson is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a bachelor of science degree in finance and a master's degree in accountancy.
Tony DaSilva is a supervision and regulation senior technical expert and has been with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta since 2003. He is a member of the Community Bank Organizations Group focusing on back-office operations functions, IT, and payment processing functions. DaSilva has 21 years of commercial banking experience. He began his banking career at the Citizens & Southern Bank of Georgia, now Bank of America, where he spent 18 years in various operations management positions. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, he was the vice president of marketing and product management for Prudential Bank. DaSilva has held management and senior management positions in deposit operations, item processing, credit card, merchant credit card, ACH, loan processing, branch support, and remittance processing operations. He also has product, marketing, sales, project, and client relations management experience. He was a participant at the FFIEC IT Symposium from which the remote deposit capture guidance originated; he also is one of the primary contributors to the revision of the FFIEC's IT examination handbook on retail payments. DaSilva is an instructor for domestic and international banking courses, a faculty member of the Payments Institute, and a regular speaker at national and regional conferences. DaSilva received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Georgia and master's degree in management from the University of Alabama–Huntsville. He is an accredited ACH professional and a certified information systems auditor.
Brittany Farner is a senior examiner in the consumer compliance area in the supervision and regulation division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She is a consumer compliance case manager with supervisory responsibility for a portfolio of community banks in the Sixth District. Farner joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 2008 as an associate examiner specializing in consumer compliance and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) examinations. She is an instructor at the Federal Reserve System Fair Lending examination school and provides internal training for new examiners-in-charge. Her other areas of expertise include the flood provisions of Regulation H, compliance and risk management, and community bank risk-focused examination procedures. Farner is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a bachelor of science in analytical finance.
Scott Hughes is the director of the risk analysis unit in the supervision and regulation division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Prior to becoming director, he was a subject matter expert in the policy and supervisory studies group and was responsible for monitoring emerging trends in the banking industry and residential and commercial real estate. In April 2007, Hughes came to the Atlanta Fed from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Atlanta, where he had worked for 10 years as a regional economist. With field exam teams as an audience, he analyzed regional economic and banking trends for the FDIC's Atlanta region. Before working for the FDIC, he was an economist with two economic consulting firms: Global Insight and what is now Moody's Economy.com. His responsibilities included forecasting and analyzing economic trends in the Southeast. He was also the manager for Global Insight's residential real estate forecasting service and was responsible for maintaining and updating Moody's Economy.com state and metro modeling system on a monthly basis. Hughes received a bachelor of arts in intercultural studies from Bard College, a master of arts in political science from the State University of New York, and a master of arts in economics from Temple University.
Michael Johnson is an executive vice president in the supervision and regulation division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this role, he oversees the district's supervision of state member banks, bank and financial holding companies, and U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banking operations. Johnson has spent his entire career with the Federal Reserve System and served in a number of leadership roles within banking supervision, including vice president and managing director of the large institutions group at the San Francisco Fed. Prior to that, he was an assistant vice president and director of the risk monitoring and analysis group. He began his career at the Dallas Fed, where he spent 10 years in bank supervision. A collaborative leader, Johnson's experience in nearly all business lines and support functions in supervision and regulation has afforded him a broad perspective and continues to inform his belief that there are many different approaches to reach a common goal. In addition to his Atlanta Fed responsibilities, Johnson serves on the Fed System's Supervision Committee and the Large Banking Organizations Management Group. A native of Texas, Johnson holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a bachelor of business administration, both from the University of Texas–Austin.
Rick MacNamara is a director of antimoney laundering risk supervision at the Miami Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where he manages a risk identification and examination team. He developed his antimoney laundering background during his 14 years in international supervision when he oversaw a portfolio of foreign banking organizations located in Miami and managed a unit that provided surveillance and examination support. MacNamara joined the supervision and regulation department of the Bank in 1992. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, he worked in the banking industry as an internal auditor, financial analyst, and lending officer. MacNamara is an instructor at Federal Reserve System examination schools, both domestic and overseas, and regularly speaks at banking and regulatory conferences. During his career at the Atlanta Fed, he has participated in a number of system, bank, and division committees and projects, including the development of system training programs on bank analysis and foreign bank supervision. MacNamara is a graduate of the University of Florida with a bachelor's of science degree in business administration.
Joanne Wakim is the assistant chief accountant for the Federal Reserve Board. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the monitoring and analysis of domestic and international proposals, standards, and practice issues significantly affecting the financial institution and insurance industry in the areas of accounting, auditing, internal controls, financial disclosure, and supervisory financial reporting. She oversees the development of positions and responses to proposed regulations and standards and the development of supervisory guidance. Wakim participates in dialogue with key constituents in the accounting and auditing professions, including standard setters, accounting firms, accounting and financial sector trade groups, and other financial sector regulators. These efforts help inform the Reserve System's understanding of domestic and international practices and help in the development of international and domestic capital, accounting, financial disclosure, and other supervisory standards. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Wakim worked at the OTS, Ernst & Young in Atlanta, and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Wakim is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor degree in accounting from Clemson University.
Steve Wise is a vice president in the supervision and regulation division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, with responsibility for community banking organizations in the Southeast. Wise joined the Federal Reserve System in 1987 as a financial analyst and was promoted to an enforcement examiner in 1989 at the Dallas Fed. He transferred to Atlanta in 1991 as an associate examiner in bank holding company supervision. In 1997 he was promoted to senior examiner and manager. In 1998 he was made director of one of the domestic safety and soundness examination teams in the division's community banking area. He was promoted to assistant vice president in 2006 and vice president in 2010. Wise earned a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Texas–Arlington and is a certified public accountant.