Director, Office of Consumer Financial Protection, Acting President, Central Liquidity Facility, and Acting Director, Office of Credit Union Resources and Expansion
The Office of Consumer Financial Protection is led by Matthew J. Biliouris. Prior to assuming this leadership role, Mr. Biliouris had served as the office's Deputy Director since 2013.
As Director of the Office of Consumer Financial Protection, he is charged with overseeing the agency's consumer financial protection policy and rulemaking efforts, fair lending examination program, and interagency coordination on consumer financial protection compliance matters. He is also responsible for the agency's Consumer Assistance Center and its financial literacy outreach program.
Mr. Biliouris also serves as Acting President of the Central Liquidity Facility, a mixed-ownership government corporation created by Congress to improve the general financial stability of credit unions by serving as a liquidity lender to credit unions experiencing unusual or unexpected liquidity shortfalls. Member credit unions own the CLF, which exists within the NCUA. The CLF President manages the facility under the oversight of the NCUA Board.
He is also the Acting Director for the Office of Credit Union Resources and Expansion. In this role, he is responsible for chartering and field-of-membership matters, low-income designations, charter conversions and bylaw amendments. The office also provides online training to credit union board members, management and staff, and technical assistance through grants and loans funded by the Community Development Revolving Loan Fund.
Mr. Biliouris began his career with the NCUA in 1992, as an examiner in Portland, Maine and then Virginia Beach, Virginia. During his 26-year career with the NCUA, he served as a Supervision Analyst in the then-Region II office; Information Systems Officer and Program Officer in the Office of Examination and Insurance; Special Assistant to the Executive Director, and Director of Supervision in the Office of Examination and Insurance. Mr. Biliouris has also served as a Special Assistant to former NCUA Board Member Michael Fryzel during his term as Chairman of the NCUA.