Media Contacts: 
Catherine Woody, CSBS Senior Director of Communications, cwoody@csbs.org or 202.728.5733
Rockhelle Johnson, CSBS Manager of Communications, rjohnson@csbs.org or 202.407.7156

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) is the nationwide organization of banking regulators from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. State banking regulators supervise approximately 5,400 state‐chartered financial institutions. Further, the majority of state banking departments also regulates a variety of non-bank financial services providers, including mortgage lenders. For more than a century, CSBS has given state supervisors a national forum to coordinate supervision of their regulated entities and to develop regulatory policy.  CSBS also provides training to state banking and financial regulators and represents its members before Congress and the federal financial regulatory agencies.

The American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR) is the national organization representing state residential mortgage regulators.  AARMR's mission is to: (a) promote the exchange of information between and among the executives and employees of the various states who are charged with the responsibility, pursuant to the laws of the individual states, for the administration and regulation of residential mortgage lending, servicing and brokering; (b) assist in resolving conflicts of jurisdiction in relation to mortgage lending, servicing, and brokering; (c) promote a better understanding of mortgage regulation; (d) develop model legislation applicable to the administration and regulation of mortgage lending, servicing and brokering; (e) increase the knowledge and ability of those engaged in the administration and enforcement of mortgage regulation and those engaged in mortgage lending, servicing or brokering by organizing and sponsoring lectures, seminars, and training programs and by providing a forum for the exchange of information; and (f) do everything necessary, proper, advisable or convenient for the accomplishment of the Corporation’s purposes and goals.

The American Council of State Savings Supervisors (ACSSS) is the national professional association of state-chartered savings institution regulators.  ACSSS provides technical and supervisory training to state financial institution regulatory agencies and examiners nationwide.  ACSSS provides professional supervisory information and insight in support of the state charter for savings institutions through Congressional testimony and FFIEC participation.  ACSSS also provides valuable information about legislative activity in Washington to state financial institution regulators.

The National Association of Consumer Credit Administrators (NACCA) was formed in 1935 to improve the supervision of consumer financial companies and to facilitate the administration of laws governing these companies.  This includes providing a forum for the exchange of information among its members and educating the public through its Consumer Education Committee.  NACCA presently has members from 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Alberta, Canada.  Its members primarily license and regulate non-depository institutions such as finance companies, mortgage companies, small loan companies, pay day lenders, pawnbrokers, and other similar types of industries.