Nessa Feddis was Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel for the American Bankers Association's Regulatory Compliance and Policy Department. She advocated for ABA members on a variety of consumer financial laws, fraud prevention, and payment system issues in the federal legislative and regulatory arenas. Her responsibilities included presenting ABA's position on such issues to Congress and government agencies. She has testified before Congress on behalf of the banking industry. In addition, in her capacity as ABA spokesperson on consumer financial issues, she represented the ABA in the media and public forums.
She also educated bankers on various banking laws through publications, conferences, and other forums. In her final years at ABA, she was responsible for the content of ABA’s “Frontline” courses, courses designed to educate non-compliance bank staff about a wide variety of banking regulations and public policy matters.
Her topics involved a broad range of regulatory and legislative matters relating to consumer credit, credit and debit cards, privacy, deposit accounts, fintech, payments systems, emerging electronic payment systems, and payment fraud prevention.
She received her law degree from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and is retired from the Washington, D.C. Bar Association. 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 and other publications.
