NewOak Appoints Anastasia Stull Managing Director of Compliance and Risk

Her mandate is to enhance the firms ability to serve its clients and ensure they are meeting todays regulatory demands.

NewOak has appointed Anastasia Davis Stull to the role of managing director in its Credit Services group, where she will be responsible for business development and execution in the areas of regulatory compliance and risk management for the financial services sector.

Based in Washington, D.C., Stull will aid NewOak expand its presence by interacting with key industry players such as regulatory agencies, trade associations, government-sponsored enterprises and regulatory law firms. Her mandate is to enhance the firms ability to serve its clients and ensure they are meeting todays regulatory demands.

The implications of the changes in the regulatory landscape are still sending shockwaves through the financial services industry. Whether it’s Dodd-Frank or Basel III, financial institutions have significant process and audit improvements that need to be dealt with immediately across their entire business lines, said Chad Burhance, partner and head of NewOak Credit Services.

He continued, NewOak has made significant investments to assist our clients with these challenges. Ms. Stull brings the regulatory expertise as well as the Washington presence and connectivity needed for NewOak to service its client base most effectively.

I am proud to be part of the NewOak team as we move forward with this important expansion of the business, said Stull. NewOak is best in class in the areas of financial markets and credit and I look forward to assisting them on their path of continuing success.

Stull brings more than 15 years of specialized experience to NewOak, having spent most of her career in Washington, D.C., representing financial services clients in regulatory matters. In addition to her role at NewOak, she currently serves as the 36thpresident of Women in Housing & Finance, the nonprofit organization that provides an open forum for key policymakers and industry experts on national financial, economic and political matters affecting the fields of financial services and housing.

Prior to joining NewOak, Stull was a director of compliance for Treliant Risk Advisors in New York focusing on its international banking practice. At Treliant, she assisted a broad range of financial services clients with consent order remediation, Dodd-Frank implementation, mortgage origination and servicing reviews, and matters relating to bank and mortgage company acquisitions by private equity clients.