Nicholas J. Podsiadly (Nick)

Nick Podsiadly has more than 20 years of experience working on behalf of government legislators, regulatory agencies, and large banking institutions to ensure compliance with relevant bank laws and regulations.

Nick has held several high-level positions with financial services companies, most recently as chief government affairs officer and senior deputy general counsel for Fifth Third Bancorp (the parent company of Fifth Third Bank, which has more than $200 billion in assets) in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he advised senior bank executives on regulatory strategy, public policy, and global government affairs and developed policy solutions for advocacy before federal, state, local, and foreign governments.

Nick also served as general counsel and chief legal officer at the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), where he managed the office of the general counsel and six nationwide regional offices consisting of nearly 500 lawyers and support staff responsible for all legal matters affecting the United States government corporation that insures deposits in the American banking system, examines and supervises financial institutions, and manages receiverships when banks fail. He represented the FDIC before federal and state courts, Congress, the White House, as well as before financial institutions, trade associations, industry conferences, and the media.

In addition, Nick was senior vice president for regulatory policy at Regions Financial Corporation, a $125 billion financial services company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and one of the nation's largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, mortgage, and insurance products and services, and vice president and senior counsel, office of legislative affairs and chief counsel at the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C.