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Financial Institutions Law

Katalina M. Bianco, JD
BANKING Law Anlayst

Katalina M. Bianco is an attorney and banking law analyst at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, who provides in-depth insights into subprime lending and the mortgage practice reform provisions of financial reform.

Bianco tracks issues related to mortgage and lending for Subprime, Mortgage, and Securitization Law Update; and she also contributes to the Federal Banking Law Reporter, Mortgage Compliance Guide, and Bank Digest. Bianco is the author of Identity Theft: What You Need to Know and co-author of Financial Services Modernization – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 – Law and Explanation and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Law, Explanation and Analysis. She has written several white papers related to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the subprime lending crisis and mortgage meltdown, and mortgage fraud.

John M. Pachkowski, JD
Financial Institutions Law Anlayst

John M. Pachkowski is an attorney and senior banking analyst at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business who tracks and explains banking developments for Federal Banking Law Reports and the Bank Compliance Guide. Pachkowski is co-author of Financial Services Modernization – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 – Law and Explanation, Federal Privacy Rules for Financial Institutions, Guide to Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy: Compliance and USA PATRIOT Act. He also co-authored the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Law, Explanation and Analysis. He offers insight on a wide range of issues affecting the changing financial services industry.

Richard A. Roth, JD
BANKING Law Anlayst

Richard A. Roth is an attorney at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business with more than 10 years of legal practice experience. He provides understanding across federal banking law and regulation with a particular focus on consumer protection issues of financial reform. Roth writes for the Federal Banking Law Reporter, Bank Compliance Guide and Bank Digest. He was a contributing author to Financial Services Modernization — Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, Guide to Federal Privacy Rules for Financial Institutions, and Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 — Law and Explanation. Additionally, he co-authored the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Law, Explanation and Analysis and has contributed to the Financial Privacy Law Guide and the State Banking Law Reporter.

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