David Wong
Assistant Regional Director
FDIC
Sessions
Regulatory Perspectives: Priorities, Conditions and Implications
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Wed
David Wong joined the FDIC in 2001 and currently serves as an Assistant Regional Director providing risk management supervision oversight to community banks and to mid-to-large size regional banks in the San Francisco Region since 2012. He leads a team that includes Case Managers, Examination Specialists, and a Field Supervisor with management responsibility for an examination staff. As an Assistant Regional Director, David also manages the San Francisco Region’s Information Technology supervision program including significant service providers after previously managing the region's AML/CFT supervision program. He has participated on the FinCEN Advisory Group on Innovation and Technology for the FDIC, and previously served as a member on the FDIC Course Oversight Group overseeing the development and administration of the FDIC’s core training schools with FDIC Corporate University. Prior to becoming the Assistant Regional Director, David served as the Special Assistant to the San Francisco Regional Director where he was responsible for coordinating and participating in high-level regional projects such as regional audits, OIG material loss reviews on failed institutions, and interactions with executive management from the FDIC, other regulatory agencies, and industry trade and consulting groups. David has also previously served as a Case Manager, Risk Management Bank Examiner, and Corporate Recruiter. As a Case Manager during the 2008 Financial Crisis, David was responsible for processing safety and soundness reports of examinations and applications for a portfolio of financial institutions including experience recommending corrective actions for problem institutions, managing several failing bank cases, and processing one of the first private equity inflatable charter applications in the San Francisco Region. David earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Oregon in Business Administration concentrating in Finance and Marketing along with a minor in Computer Information Technology having basic knowledge of SQL. He is also a 2014 graduate from the Pacific Coast School of Banking writing a management report recommending the simplifying of the BASEL III capital framework to focus more on a tangible loss absorbing capital ratio.