Thomas P. Vartanian

A Futurist and Expert in Financial Technology

Bio

Thomas P. Vartanian

https://thomasvartanian.com/

Thomas P. Vartanian is an author, financial advisor, and board mentor. He is the former Executive Director of the Program on Financial Regulation & Technology at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, where he was also a Professor of Law. Between 1983 and 2018, he chaired the Financial Institution's practices at two international law firms, Dechert LLP and Fried Frank LLP, through four financial crises. Both as a regulator and private practitioner, he has been involved in 30 of the 50 largest financial institution failures in American history.

Mr. Vartanian served in the Reagan Administration during the S&L crisis as General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the FSLIC. Prior to that, he served in the Carter Administration in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as Special Assistant to the Chief Counsel. Since departing government service, Mr. Vartanian has informally advised Presidential Administrations on financial services issues and been approached by the Reagan, Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations to run federal financial regulatory agencies.

Mr. Vartanian was Chairman of the American Bar Association's Cyberspace Law Committee between 1998 and 2002, where he chaired an international task force of lawyers from twenty countries which released a seminal report in London in 2000 on the novel issues created by doing business in Cyberspace.

Mr. Vartanian is a futurist and expert in financial technology, which has been described by clients in Chambers as "one of the best financial services lawyers in America." He is currently a member of the American Association of Bank Directors' Task Force on Bank Director Personal Liability Mitigation.

Mr. Vartanian has authored more than four hundred articles and eight books, including his new book, 200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology That Will Change It All, chronicling the country's tumultuous financial history and the impact that technology will have in the future.

He is a frequent lecturer and media commentator on the financial services industry, having appeared on, among others, Bloomberg TV, CNN, Fox, and many radio shows. He has also taught financial services, and digital commerce law at Georgetown Law School, George Washington Law School, and Boston University School of Law, and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School.

In 2008, Mr. Vartanian was named "Washingtonian of the Year" based on his use of music and sports to raise money for charities in the D.C. metropolitan area. As a musician, he appeared in the first production in the United States in 1970 of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. His classic rock band, The Johnny Esquire Band, has helped raise approximately $5,000,000 for charities in the Washington D.C. area over the last twenty years. Mr. Vartanian also founded and plays for the Washington All Stars, a senior baseball team that has raised $500,000 for Special Olympics.

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Publications

Thomas P. Vartanian Recent Publications

Recent Books

 

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Books

 

Recent Op-Eds & Articles

 

A more complete list of publications and appearances can be found at www.thomasvartanian.com

Appearances

Thomas P. Vartanian Recent Appearances

For a current list of Mr. Vartanian's most recent appearances, visit --

https://thomasvartanian.com/additional-publications/

DATE SPONSOR WATCH/LISTEN
December 1, 2021Speech: SEC Presentation200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes,Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It Al
November 22, 2021Podcast Interview: American Association of Bank Directors200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All Calling All Bank Directors Episode 41: Financial Crises:
Why, When, How (Part 1) - AABD (wpengine.com)
November 17, 2021Podcast Interview: John Byrne’s “AMLRightsource200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recession, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All https://www.amlrightsource.com/
news/a-deep-dive-with-tom-vartanian-part-01

https://www.amlrightsource.com
/news/a-deep-dive-with-tom-vartanian-part-02
November 12, 2021Radio Interview: Chicago's Morning Answer AM 560 WINDInflation, the Economy & the Metaverse
https://youtu.be/TjMKL8wVyqA
November 12, 2021Podcast Interview: Howard Alterescue’s “Tell Me What You Are Reading”200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
https://www.linkedin.com/
feed/update/urn:li:activity:6865137233997959168/

https://anchor.fm/howard/episodes/
Ep--35-Tom-Vartanian---200-Years-of-American-Financial
-Panics---Crashes--Recessions--Depressions--and-the-
Technology-That-Will-Change-It-All-e1936bs
October 20, 2021Speech: Federal Reserve Board200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
Aug 4, 202WHF Panel: Amy Friend and Bill Isaac200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
July 17, 2021Speech: Smoketree Innovation Roundtable: After COVID: The Law of Accelerating ReturnsTech Tools: AI for Good and Bad
July 14, 2021TV Interview: Wall Street Wrap Up (PBS/New Orleans - WYES-TV200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bzQy6tgKs
June 30, 2021Podcast Interview: Ballard Spahr Consumer Finance MonitorA Discussion With Special Guest Thomas Vartanian, Author of the Recently-Published Book, “200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, And the Technology That Will Change It All” Part !:
https://www.ballardspahr.com/
Insights/Blogs/2021/07/
Pod-Tom-Vartanian-Discussion-Part-1

https://www.ballardspahr.com/
Insights/Blogs/2021/07/
Pod-Part-II-Tom-Vartanian-Author-200
-Years-of-American-Financial-Panics
June 23, 2021Interview: China TechThreatHigh Tech Heist: Vlog Series on Banking Cybersecurity - China Tech Threat
ChinaTechThreat on Twitter: "@ChinaTechThreat
is pleased to introduce High Tech Heist, a new Vlog
Series on Banking #Cybersecurity. @RoslynLayton
and Tom Vartanian kick it off.
“Financial institutions are the number
one target of hackers around the planet.”
Watch here: https://t.co/Y2LSYsp9hA" / Twitter
June 14, 2021Panel Discussion: Financial Managers Society: Annual Forum Presentation Washington DC Capital Hiltonhttps://www.fmsinc.org/FMS/Forum/Forum21/home.aspx
June 22, 2021Bank Board Meeting200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
June 17, 2021Webinar: The Telecom Policy Research Conference (TPRC) ProgramCountering Cyberattacks And Ransomware Will Require
“Whole Of Nation” Response (forbes.com)
June 10, 2021Webinar: FHLBank of NY Members’ Webinar SeriesCrisis, Regulation & Technology: The Complicated Past, Present & Future of Financial Services
https://www.fhlbny.com/financial_intelligen/crisis-regulation-tech/
May 31, 2021Podcast Interview: The Chris Voss Show200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions And The Technology That Will Change It All
https://thechrisvossshow.com/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-
200-years-of-american-financial-panics-crashes-recessions-depressions-and-the-
technology-that-will-change-it-all-by-thomas-p-vartanian/
May 31, 2021Podcast Interview: US National Privacy Legislation Association of Digital & Cyber GovernanceThe Internet is Broken – We Need A New One!
https://open.spotify.com/show
/3LOA68FCRWbFZlpvnQFqFs?si=usRwk_N0S0yH8RuNsDD6-Q&nd=1
May 28, 2021Bank Board Meeting: “Crisis, Regulation & Technology: The Complicated Past, Present & Future of Financial Services”200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All
May 25, 2021Podcast Interview: Duke FinReg Podcast200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All
https://spoti.fi/3fRDZ3x
May 21, 2021Podcast Interview: The Curious Man200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast
/thecuriousmanspodcast/id1369458829?i=1000522935791
May 18, 2021Radio: Chicago's Morning Answer AM 560 WIND200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions and The Technology That Will Change It All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukVR-FV2cE
May 17, 2021Press Interview: ThinkAdvisor
www.ThinkAdvisor.com
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/
2021/06/02/longtime-bank-lawyer-predicts
-where-next-financial-crisis-will-come-from/
May 11, 2021TV Interview: “Wake Up America” Newsmax Interviewhttps://www.dropbox.com/
s/67lgfuz5x1mv8iv/VARTANIAN%20WUA%
20051121.mp4?dl=0
May 10, 2021Radio Interview: The Jim Bohannon Showhttps://omny.fm/shows/jim-bohannon/jim-bohannon-05-10-21
February 11, 2021CCFL and Scalia Law School- FinTech and Consumer Finance: Agenda for 2021