24th Annual Regional & Community Bankers Conference 24th Annual Regional & Community Bankers Conference

Wednesday, November 12, 2025
1:30 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
600 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
 

The 24th Annual Regional & Community Bankers Conference will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, from 1:30 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

The conference will be held in person and will include a variety of speakers who will offer insights on how New England's regional and community banks may evolve to effectively navigate changing economic and business environments. A cocktail reception will follow the conference.

See the agenda and detailed speaker biographies below.

Agenda

1:30 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Steven Fay

Vice President

Supervision, Regulation & Credit

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

1:35 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.

Residential Real Estate Perspectives

Domonic Purviance

Supervision & Regulation Expert

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

2:35 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Break

2:50 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.

Unlocking the Power of AI in Financial Services

Lawrence Pruss

Managing Director

Strategic Resource Management Inc.

David Palmer

Lead Supervisory Financial Analyst

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Perspectives on the Economy: Brief Remarks and Q&A

Susan M. Collins

President and CEO

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Cocktail Reception

Harborview Dining Room on the 31st Floor



Speakers


Domonic Purviance 

Domonic Purviance, Supervision & Regulation Expert, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Mr. Purviance serves as a Subject Matter Expert within the Supervision Regulation and Credit Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this function, Mr. Purviance is primarily responsible for conducting an ongoing assessment of risks associated with residential real estate markets and the potential impacts they may pose to the financial system. This includes analyzing conditions within individual markets as well as the impacts of external forces on real estate. In addition, Mr. Purviance is responsible for developing real estate related analytical reports and tools utilized internally throughout the Federal Reserve System to aid in risk surveillance and banking supervision as well as external tools such as the Home Ownership Affordability Monitor (HOAM). Mr. Purviance also frequently engages in public outreach on the behalf of the Federal Reserve by speaking at public conferences and events as well as contributing commentary to the Beige Book, a publication produced by the Federal Reserve on economic conditions by district.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Mr. Purviance served as the President of Market Advisory Services, LLC, a research and consulting firm that provides analytics for developers, homebuilders, and lenders to assist in property valuations and to help assess the viability of submarkets for new development. Mr. Purviance also previously served as a Senior Consultant at Metrostudy, a residential real estate research company, where he was responsible for the firm’s consulting operations in the Atlanta region.

Mr. Purviance received his B.A. in Urban Planning from Morehouse College and his Masters in City and Regional Planning for Georgia Tech.


Larry Pruss 

Larry Pruss, Managing Director, Strategic Resource Management Inc.

Larry Pruss is Managing Director at SRM where he leads thought leadership on faster payments, digital assets, and emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing. Larry has over 30 years of experience as a strategist, adviser, and speaker.

Larry is a Fellow at the Digital Euro Association, an active member of the U.S. Faster Payments Council and a board advisory member. His background includes senior leadership roles at National Bank of Canada, Profit Insight, Bank of America, and MBNA. Outside of work, he serves as an emergency responder with the Centre County Search and Rescue Team in Pennsylvania.


David Palmer 

David Palmer, Lead Supervisory Financial Analyst, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

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, third-party risk management, and banks’ use of new financial technologies. He engages in both policy-related projects as well as on-site examinations. He 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 subsequently by FDIC). David was a contributing author to the banking agencies’ Supervisory Guidance on Third-party Risk Management (SR 23-4), issued in June 2023. He continues to lead the implementation of both pieces of guidance within the Federal Reserve. David has also been involved in evaluating supervised firms’ use of artificial intelligence/machine learning. He has a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a master’s degree from Georgetown University.

Contacts

Haidee Patterson