Nessa Feddis is Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel for
the ABA’s Regulation Compliance and Policy, Consumer
Regulations and Compliance Solutions departments.
She advocates for ABA members,
on a variety of consumer banking, fraud, and payment system
issues in the federal legislative and regulatory arenas, in
particular the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Her
responsibilities include relaying ABA’s position on such
issues to Congress and government agencies and educating bankers
on new laws and regulations. She has testified before
Congress on behalf of the banking industry. In addition,
she represents the ABA in press and public forms as
ABA spokesperson on consumer protection issues. In recent
years, she has been involved with regulatory and legislative
matters relating to and consumer credit, credit and debit
cards, privacy, deposit accounts, payments systems,
emerging electronic payment systems, and credit card
and check fraud prevention.
She received her law degree from Catholic University
and is a member of the Washington, D.C. Bar. She
is also a fellow and former President of the American
College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers and former
Chair of the Subcommittee on Electronic Fund Transfers
of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial
Services Committee. Her articles discussing regulatory
and legislative developments in consumer banking matters have
appeared in ABA Banking Journal and ABA
Bank Compliance.
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow and former President of the American College of
Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
- Former Chair, American Bar Association Subcommittee on
Electronic Fund Transfer of the Consumer Financial Services
Committee