Steven antonakes biography
Steven Antonakes Named Acting Deputy Director of the CFPB
Steve Antonakes
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Summary
As Steve Antonakes explains in this interview, he never planned to become Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Banks.
Fresh out of college, Steve Antonakes took a job in the early 1990s as a Bank Examiner with the Massachusetts Division of Banks, through which he investigated banks and credit unions to ensure they were following Community Reinvestment Act guidance. Antonakes describes some of his key accomplishments at the Division of Banks, including developing rules to coincide with Massachusetts’ predatory lending law, convening a mortgage summit in the mid-2000s to identify ways to prevent foreclosures in the state, which resulted in comprehensive foreclosure legislation, and playing an integral role in the creating of the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System.
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