Financial Oversight and Climate Change: An Overview of Current Trends and Implications for the Banking Sector

Our speaker will discuss financial oversight and climate change: an overview of current trends and implications for the banking sector. 

SPEAKER BIO:

Ilmi Granoff is the Director of ClimateWorks Foundation’s Sustainable Finance Program. He is an attorney and policy expert with a decade and half of experience in environmental law and policy, sustainable development, energy and infrastructure finance, and public-private partnerships. Previously, Ilmi headed the Green Growth Business Unit at the Overseas Development Institute, served as the Special Counsel for Climate and Environment at the African Development Bank, and practiced law in the global energy and infrastructure group at Freshfields.  He holds graduate degrees in law, international relations, and environmental science from New York University and Yale University, and a BA from Swarthmore College. 

The Double-Mo Show: Annual Review of Key Regulatory Challenges and Federal and State Legislation Affecting the Banking Industry

Please join us as in welcoming Maurine Padden and Maureen Young for the extremely entertaining and informative Double-Mo Show. They will cover the annual review of key regulatory challenges and Federal and State Legislation affecting the banking industry.

Maurine Padden is the executive vice president and chief operating officer for WBA. In that role, she oversees WBA’s advocacy efforts in the legislative, regulatory and legal arenas on behalf of the association’s members in addition to providing operational support to the WBA team. As a member of WBA’s senior management, she contributes to the development and execution of the association’s strategic goals and initiatives.  Maurine previously served as the associations’ director of state and federal government affairs and lead lobbyist in the most active state legislature in the country. Prior to joining the association in 1989, Maurine was corporate governance counsel for the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), and also served as trial counsel for the Department of Industrial Relations.

Maurine received her law degree from University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and her bachelor’s degree in government and economics from California State University, Sacramento.

Maureen Young is Senior Regulatory Counsel and Senior Vice President at Bank of the West.  She advises the Bank on a wide range of financial services regulatory, compliance, examination and corporate governance matters, data privacy and security and Bank Secrecy Act/AML matters, as well as regulatory strategy and policy issues.  Prior to joining Bank of the West in 2016, Maureen was Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at MUFG Union Bank, supporting key regulatory and implementation projects and serving as the lead lawyer on numerous strategic initiatives.  Before joining MUFG Union Bank in 2012, Maureen was a partner at a large international law firm, where she was a member of the Financial Institutions Corporate and Regulatory group and the Commercial Technology group.  She was also co-chair and co-founder of the firm’s Privacy and Security group.  Prior to joining the firm in 2003, she was Assistant General Counsel at Bank of America in the Legal Department’s Regulatory and Corporate Services group.  Maureen is on the Board of Directors of the Financial Women of San Francisco. She is the immediate past Chair of the Banking Law Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.  She is an active participant on the American Bankers Association Regulatory Strategies Committee.

Maureen holds a J.D. from University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and a Ph.D. and Masters degree from University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. She received her bachelor’s degree in Government from Georgetown University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).  She is certified as a Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Fundamentals of Banking Law & FinTech

Berkeley Law Executive Education is pleased to continue its sponsorship of Fundamentals of Banking Law and FinTech progam at the end of the month. Click here for more details and/or to register for the program.

MUFG Union Bank – Consumer Lending Bank Operations Associate General Counsel Managing Director – #10021572-WD

MUFG Americas Legal Department has posted a position for a Consumer Lending Bank Operations Associate General Counsel Managing Director to be located in Los Angeles or San Francisco. The link to the posting https://careers.mufgamericas.com/job-consumer-lending-bank-operations-associate-general-counsel-managing-director-10021572-wd ; the requisition number is 10021572-WD. Interested candidates can apply for the position through this link or searching for the position by entering the requisition number at the Careers link at www.unionbank.com