Bank Policy Institute
Gregory Baer is an accomplished legal professional currently serving as President & CEO of the Bank Policy Institute and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Previous roles include President of the Clearing House Association and General Counsel for the Payments Company, along with a significant tenure as General Counsel for Corporate & Regulatory Law at JPMorgan Chase. Baer's legal expertise extends to positions as Deputy General Counsel for Corporate Law at Bank of America and as a partner at WilmerHale. Additionally, Baer has held roles as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as Managing Senior Counsel at the Federal Reserve Board. An author with works published by Penguin Putnam and Random House, Baer holds an A.B. in Political Science/Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Harvard Law School.
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Bank Policy Institute
The Bank Policy Institute (BPI) is a nonpartisan public policy, research and advocacy group, representing the nation’s leading banks. Our members include universal banks, regional banks and the major foreign banks doing business in the United States. Collectively, they employ almost 2 million Americans, make 72% of all loans and nearly half of the nation’s small business loans and serve as an engine for financial innovation and economic growth. Our staff includes economists, researchers, financial analysts and attorneys, all focused on using data and analysis to shape sound policy. We distribute our research and analysis to U.S. and global regulators, members of Congress, academics and media through academic-quality research papers, blog posts, white papers, comment letters, and Congressional testimony. We also serve our members through our Business-Innovation-Technology-Security division (better known as BITS), which provides an executive level forum to discuss and promote current and emerging technology, foster innovation, reduce fraud and improve cybersecurity and risk management practices for the nation’s financial sector. We take as a given that the business of banking is the business of taking and managing risk. BPI aims to shape policy to allow the nation’s leading banks to best serve their customers and fulfill their vital economic role while holding sufficient capital and liquidity to ensure that the risks they take are borne by their shareholders and creditors, not the taxpayer.