Brian Laverdure

From Buzzword to Boardroom: What Community Bank Leaders Need to Know About Digital Assets

Join ICBA’s crypto regulatory expert, Brian Laverdure, for a fast-paced executive update on the U.S. digital assets regulatory landscape and what it means for community banks. Designed for C-level leaders, this session will cut through the hype to highlight key developments in payment stablecoin regulation, the broader policy direction in Washington, and the strategic questions bank leadership should be watching now.

BRIAN'S BIO
Brian Laverdure is senior vice president, digital assets & innovation policy for the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). In this role he advocates payments and bank technology policy issues before financial regulatory agencies, private-sector organizations and Congress on behalf of the nation’s community banks. Laverdure has nearly two decades of banking and electronic payment experience. Prior to joining ICBA, he served as director of emerging payments education for EPCOR, the largest payments association in the country, where he developed training programs on new payment technologies and trends for community banks in the Midwest. He is a respected payments executive and serves on a number of industry work groups, including the Financial Stability Board’s Legal, Regulatory, and Supervisory Taskforce. He also sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems.

Laverdure has a bachelor’s degree in History from UNC-Asheville and a master’s degree in American History from UNC-Greensboro and is an accredited ACH professional.