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DEBBI ROBERTS

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DEBBI ROBERTS

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Debbi Roberts is a partner and member of the firm leadership team managing business development at CCG Catalyst. Her focus is on value-based client engagement, market expansion and awareness within the bank, fintech and non-bank financial services market helping to provide solutions across all of the firm’s services.  This includes strategy and business planning, core modernization, payments, digital experience, de novo banking, merger/acquisition preparation and navigation, bank products and services innovation, board and management development, tactical performance, business process and profitability improvement, technology utilization and staff augmentation.

Debbi has spent over 20 years in financial services partnering with numerous clients on regulatory compliance, internal audit, fair lending, loan review, banking as a service (BaaS) and litigation support needs. As an industry advocate, she has collaborated with industry thought leaders, C-suite executives, and association leaders to help promote their respective strategic initiatives and has served on multiple association committees to help source relevant speakers and content for conferences and conventions nationwide.

Professional Affiliations

  • Operations and Regulatory Compliance Committee (American Financial Services Association)
  • Events and Programming Committee (Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association)
  • Events and Programming Committee (Texas Mortgage Bankers Association)

Representative Work Includes

  • 15+ years selling SaaS, PaaS, technology and regulatory compliance consulting into financial services companies including fintech and non-bank financial institutions
  • Helped hundreds of financial services clients develop and review corporate governance structures, develop and review compliance management systems, policies and procedures, BSA/AML programs, fair lending programs, UDAAP, monitoring, due diligence, and training
  • Quarterbacked resources for enforcement action reconciliation and remediation for international payments provider
  • Facilitated high-profile fair lending enforcement action remediation project
  • Partnered with numerous banks hitting the $10B threshold on CFPB Readiness
  • Worked with several sovereign tribal lenders to develop compliance management systems congruent with tribal bylaws and CFPB standards
  • Worked closely with the team providing training to the inaugural CFPB examiners
  • Helped integrate Governance, Risk and Compliance AI and NLP based software into numerous partner banks and financial institutions
  • Created non-bank financial services compliance course curriculum for MSB and STSD lending companies
  • Elevated company visibility and thought leadership through active industry association involvement, committee participation, speaking on panels, hosting webinars and writing articles
  • Partnered with top law firms to support litigation and defense efforts for bank and fintech clients

Education

  • Metropolitan State College of Denver
  • English
  • Business Communications