Third-Party Relationships

Explore vendor third-party and fourth-party management and if/when new regulatory guidance goes into effect, how should banks modify their risk and compliance programs to ensure they are compliant with the new rules.

  • PRESENTER: Tracey Levandoski, CRCM

    MANAGING DIRECTOR
    CrossCheck Compliance

    Tracey Levandoski is a managing director at CrossCheck Compliance, a nationwide consulting firm providing regulatory compliance, internal audit, fair lending, loan review, and litigation support services to the financial services industry. 

    Tracey is a regulatory compliance and risk management professional with thirty years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. Having worked as both a prudential regulator and in banking institutions, she has demonstrated expertise in compliance including extensive knowledge of lending and deposit regulations, with a recent concentration on fintech lending. She is also experienced in financial institution accounting and operations.

    Prior to joining CrossCheck, Tracey spent ten years at Standard Bank & Trust, n/k/a First Midwest Bank, where she was senior vice president for compliance. Previously she was with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago serving as an examiner and a team leader in consumer compliance and CRA examinations, and as an assistant vice president for community bank examinations. Tracey has also held financial and operations positions at National City Bancshares, Inc., and Bank of Illinois. 

    Tracey is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM). She has been a presenter for the American Bankers Association (ABA), Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association, the Chicagoland Compliance Association (CCA), the Northern Illinois Compliance Association (NICA), the Bank Administration Institute (BAI), the Central Florida Compliance Association (CFCA), and the Utah Bankers Association (UBA). Tracey has also been published in ABA Bank Compliance and Utah Banker. 

    She holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership from Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois.

  • INTRODUCTION: Ed Haidenthaller

    PRESIDENT & CEO
    Pitney Bowes Bank

    On March 1, 2019, Ed was elected to serve as President & CEO of the Pitney Bowes Bank by the Bank’s Board of Directors.  In this role, Ed is responsible for all functions, activities, personnel, profitability, and processes of the Bank.  In his tenure, he has relocated the bank during COVID, implemented a new bank platform, and introduced many new products for the bank.

    Mr. Haidenthaller joined Pitney Bowes Bank as a Vice President and Chief Investment Officer in the fall of 2014.  In this capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of oversight and reporting for the Bank’s $400 million investment portfolio.  He came to the Bank with varied experience ranging from being a bank CFO/COO to a pension plan and bond fund manager.  Ed’s background has been in financial management and capital markets, including serving as a Fin-Op and assistant controller of a large broker-dealer (Wells Fargo Van Kasper).  He also owns a small boutique venture capital firm.  Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Mr. Haidenthaller served as the CFO and COO of both NHB Holdings, Inc. and Proficio Bank, both of Salt Lake City, Utah, which specialized in residential mortgage production and secondary marketing of that production. 

    Ed’s financial services career, beginning in 1984, includes retail bank branch operations and risk management at First Security Bank, Zions Bank, Lehman Brothers Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank as well as having consulted with 61 banks on internal audit, compliance, and efficiency structuring.  He has been a trader for a global mutual fund company, a large corporate pension plan fiduciary and manager, as well as a fixed income bond fund manager.  His consulting work includes over 8 years in financial services, operational efficiency, internal audit, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and FDICIA and SOX compliance for Jefferson Wells, Experis, McGladrey & Pullen LLP, and Protiviti.   He led the western US financial services practice for Jefferson Wells for over 4 years while publishing articles in Reuters, Directors & Boards Magazine, and Connect Utah.

    Mr. Haidenthaller is on the Board of Directors and serves as Audit Committee Chair of an Oil & Gas company, was Chairman of the Board for a non-profit Hospice for the Homeless facility (The INN Between), and recently retired after 7 years as President and Vice- President of a local competition soccer club with over 60 teams and 3 national titles.  He holds an MBA from the University of Utah and an undergraduate degree in Corporate Finance (with a minor in Investment Management) from Weber State University.