Alex Barrage, a partner in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Financial Services Industry Group, was quoted in the January 27, 2025 Washington Post article, “Banking Regulator Rescinds More Than 200 Job Offers for Examiners It Needs.”

“You have fewer people in the pipeline and fewer people at the top,” said Alexandra Steinberg Barrage, a former FDIC official now at the law firm Troutman Pepper Locke. “It makes it more challenging for the exam teams to retool to reflect the broader modernization of banking.”