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

Richard (Rich) Spillenkothen has been the Director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation since 1991. In this capacity, Mr. Spillenkothen is the senior Federal Reserve Board staff official in the area of banking supervision and regulation. He oversees the supervision and regulation of state member banks, bank holding companies, Edge and agreement corporations, and the U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banking institutions. The Director also oversees the development and execution of supervisory policy regarding these institutions.

Mr. Spillenkothen coordinates supervisory policy with Reserve Bank officials as well as with other federal, state and foreign banking authorities. Mr. Spillenkothen also is responsible for overseeing the application process for becoming either a state member bank or a bank holding company.

Mr. Spillenkothen is a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and is a participant on the Joint Forum of Banking, Insurance and Securities supervisors. He is the Board’s representative on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Supervision Task Force.