Morris R. Morgan

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Morgan was Chief Operating Officer, Senior Deputy Comptroller, and Chief National Bank Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). In that capacity, he led, directed, and had responsibility for all supervision related business units, including community and mid-size bank supervision, large bank supervision, bank supervision policy, economics, office of innovation, supervision systems and analytics, and subject matter experts.

In his Chief Operating Officer role, Mr. Morgan was a principal advisor to the Comptroller on domestic and international policy issues, served on the OCC’s Executive Committee, chaired the OCC’s Technology Committee, and served on a variety of other executive sub-committees. Mr. Morgan was responsible for overseeing formulation of policies and procedures for supervision and for creating and executing supervisory strategies for the entities supervised by the agency. Mr. Morgan also oversaw Supervision Risk Management, which included oversight of the agency’s National Risk Committee. Mr. Morgan also served as the agency’s Deputy on the Financial Stability Oversight Council Deputies’ Committee.

During his 34-year OCC Career, Mr. Morgan held numerous other positions at the OCC including serving as the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision, a Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision, and two Large Bank Examiner-in-Charge positions. The Large Bank Supervision roles provided Mr. Morgan with extensive experience in and understanding of a wide-range of banking activities of the largest, most complex banks, federal branches, and agencies. Mr. Morgan also served in a variety of roles within the OCC’s policy and community bank supervision units. Collectively, these roles provided him extensive experience in bank supervisory and enforcement matters spanning most aspects of banking, including credit risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk, operational risk, compliance risk, and balance sheet management. Mr. Morgan is also experienced in assessing financial condition, strategic risk, and reputation risk and evaluating remediation efforts.

During his OCC career, Mr. Morgan served in key regulatory roles while significant parts of the banking industry faced difficult challenges related to mutual fund market timing and late trading, municipal derivatives activities, foreign exchange activities, and the credit, liquidity, capital, and earnings issues associated with the 2007-2009 great recession.  Additionally, Mr. Morgan played a key regulatory role as the industry dealt with the mortgage foreclosure crisis, which followed the great recession. Mr. Morgan also played key supervisory roles as banks have undergone significant business combinations, dealt with significant operational and cyber events, and experienced significant financial stress.

Mr. Morgan also has extensive experience working with domestic and international financial services regulators and industry groups.

Mr. Morgan holds a B.B.A. from Stephen F. Austin State University, a Chartered Financial Analysis designation, and a National Bank Examiner Commission.