AMES, Iowa -- Three experts with distinguished careers in the financial sector will discuss the future of the mortgage market and financial regulation in a panel discussion at Iowa State University on Thursday, Oct. 28. "Fixing Financial Markets: Views from Freddie, Finance and the Fed" will be at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The presentation is part of Iowa State's National Affairs Series. It is free and open to the public.
The three panelists are Donald Bisenius, executive vice president of the single family credit guarantee business at Freddie Mac; author Dan Laufenberg, former chief economist and vice president of Ameriprise Financial; and Kevin Moore, senior vice president in charge of the supervision and risk management division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Bisenius oversees the sourcing, pricing and securitization of new business as well as the overall performance of Freddie Mac's $1.8 trillion single family credit guarantee business. He previously served 12 years as senior vice president for credit policy and portfolio management. Bisenius joined Freddie Mac in 1992 after working at the Federal Housing Finance Board and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He earned his doctoral degree in economics from Iowa State.
Laufenberg is an economic consultant, author, editor and publisher of the Laufenberg Economic Quarterly. He also serves as economist for the investment firm of Stonebridge Capital Advisors. In 2009, he retired from Ameriprise Financial, where he worked for nearly 22 years. Laufenberg previously served 14 years on the research staff of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, including nearly two years as special assistant to Federal Reserve Board member Henry Wallich. He also worked a short time as principal financial analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Laufenberg earned his master's degree in economics and doctoral degree in economics with a minor in statistics, both from Iowa State.
In his position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Moore is responsible for the supervision and regulation of the district's state member banks and bank holding companies, as well as the bank's discount window and risk management functions. A native of Harlan, he holds an MBA degree from Rockhurst University, Kansas City. Moore also is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, a program of the American Bankers Association.
The panel discussion is cosponsored by the Department of Economics, National Affairs Series, and the Committee on Lectures, which is funded by the Government of the Student Body.
More information on ISU lectures is available at http://www.lectures.iastate.edu, or by calling (515) 294-9935.