NR 2000-99
		FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE			
		Contact:  Dean DeBuck (202) 874-5770
		December 12, 2000				    


OCC Names Dan Stipano to Succeed Bob Serino as Deputy Chief 
Counsel 

WASHINGTON -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) 
announced today the selection of Daniel P. Stipano as Deputy 
Chief Counsel.  Mr. Stipano succeeds Robert B. Serino, who will 
retire this month after 17 years as Deputy Chief Counsel.  Mr. 
Stipano joins Raymond Natter as a Deputy Chief Counsel, both 
reporting to First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel 
Julie L. Williams.

"Dan is a tremendous asset to the OCC," said First Senior Deputy 
Comptroller and Chief Counsel Julie Williams, "and I know he will 
be terrific as he takes on these additional responsibilities.  
Bob Serino is a tough act to follow and we are lucky to have 
someone as talented as Dan to succeed him."

As director of the OCC's Enforcement and Compliance Division 
since 1995, Mr. Stipano headed the OCC's Division responsible for 
enforcement actions involving national banks and their officers 
and directors when they engaged in unsafe and unsound banking 
practices or violations of law.  

From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Stipano was an Assistant Director in the 
Enforcement and Compliance Division and a staff attorney in the 
Division from 1985 to 1989.  He also served as a staff attorney 
at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and an associate with 
the law firm of Jackson and Jessup, P.C., in Arlington, Virginia.

Mr. Stipano graduated in 1983 from the Marshall-Wythe School of 
Law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.  
He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Union College in 
Schenectady, New York in 1980.  Mr. Stipano is a member of the 
Virginia State Bar.

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The OCC charters, regulates and examines approximately 2,300 national banks and 
56 federal branches of foreign banks in the U.S., accounting for more than 56 
percent of the nation’s banking assets. Its mission is to ensure a safe and 
sound and competitive national banking system that supports the citizens, 
communities and economy of the United States.




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