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Sarah Bloom Raskin,
Commissioner of Financial Regulation |
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Sarah Bloom Raskin
Commissioner of Financial Regulation
Sarah Bloom Raskin was appointed on August 28, 2007 as
Maryland's Commissioner of Financial Regulation.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Raskin accumulated
extensive experience in the financial industry from
a range of perspectives in policy, regulatory and
legal roles. Immediately prior to joining the Office
of Financial Regulation, Mrs. Raskin served as Managing
Director at Promontory Financial Group. Mrs. Raskin
was also Banking Counsel to the Senate Banking Committee
(the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and
Urban Affairs) and has worked at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and the Joint Economic Committee
of Congress. Sarah is a 1986 graduate of Harvard
Law School. Sarah also graduated from Amherst College
in 1983, where she graduated magna cum laude in
Economics, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is a recipient
of the James R. Nelson Award in Economics.
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Commissioner Raskin is on the board of directors of the
Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and serves as the
Chair of the Federal Legislation Committee. She also was
named as Chair of the Regulatory Restructuring Task Force,
a group of state banking commissioners who are developing
principles for evaluating regulatory restructuring proposals
and Chair of the Consumer Financial Products Agency Task
Force. She has recently testified before the United States
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development
on the topic of financial literacy; before the House Financial
Services Committee on the topic of mortgage fraud; before
the Congressional Oversight Panel on the topic of regulatory
restructuring and before the Joint Economic Committee
of Congress on the topic of predatory lending. She was
also appointed to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination
Council. Sarah is the recipient of the 2009 Maryland Consumer
Rights Coalition Consumer Advocate of the Year Award.
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