Richard Spillenkothen
Director
Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Richard (Rich) Spillenkothen is the Director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation. In this capacity, Mr. Spillenkothen is the senior Federal Reserve Board staff official with responsibility for banking supervision and regulation. He coordinates financial institution supervisory policy with Reserve Bank officials, as well as with other federal, state and foreign banking authorities. He is also responsible for overseeing the process for assessing the financial and management impact of major banking acquisitions and expansions.

Mr. Spillenkothen serves on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and on other international regulatory and supervisory forums. He also represents the Federal Reserve on domestic interagency policy and coordination committees, including the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Supervision Task Force.

Mr. Spillenkothen joined the staff of the Federal Reserve in 1976 in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation and held various other management positions in the Division prior to being appointed the Director in 1991.

He began his career in banking in 1972 with First National Bank of Chicago.

Mr. Spillenkothen holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an A.B. from Harvard University