David Palmer

David Palmer is a lead supervisory financial analyst in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Board. He focuses on several primary topic areas, including banks’ model risk management practices, banks’ and supervisors’ stress testing activities, banks’ capital planning practices, validation of supervisory stress testing models, and banks’ use of new financial technologies. He engages in both policy-related projects as well as on-site examinations. David was a primary author of the Federal Reserve’s Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management (SR 11-7), issued in April 2011 jointly with the OCC (and later with FDIC), and continues to lead the implementation of that guidance within the Federal Reserve.  More recently, David has been involved in evaluating supervised firms’ use of fintech, including artificial intelligence/machine learning.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.