Volume II - PDF - International Association of Deposit Insurers

•BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS•
Part II: Outreach
Mr. Sabourin holds an MBA from the University of Toronto. In 1999, and again in 2000, Mr. Sabourin was
the chair of the Black & White Opera Soirée benefit concerts for the National Arts Centre Orchestra and
Opera Lyra Ottawa. He has served as a Director of Christie Lake Community Center, an organization that
provides summer camp and year-round activities for underprivileged children in the Ottawa region.
Mr. Guy Saint-Pierre joined Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) in 1987 and shortly thereafter
was appointed Senior Vice President Insurance & Risk Assessment. He is responsible for the overall administration
of the development, implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures relating to
member admission; deposit insurance termination and cancellation; the policy of deposit insurance; riskbased
premium administration; standards of sound business and financial practices; practices warranting
premium surcharges; dissemination of information by member institutions to the public; compliance of
member institutions with the CDIC Act and By-laws; and most importantly for the monitoring of member
institutions and assessment of potential risk to the CDIC Deposit Insurance Fund.
During his 14 years with CDIC, Mr. Saint-Pierre has developed extensive experience in dealing with
problem banks. He has been closely associated with the resolution of many bank failures, sometimes
through formal liquidations, sometimes through purchase and assumption transactions. Over this period
he has negotiated all CDIC’s financial assistance related to purchase and assumption transactions.
Mr. Saint-Pierre has served as an instructor for SEACEN and the IMF-Singapore Training Institute in various
training courses or seminars on banking supervision, failure resolutions and other deposit insurance
matters. He has been a consultant to many countries (most recently to Kuwait and the Philippines) with
respect to the implementation or enhancement to deposit insurance systems.
Mr. Carl R. Tannenbaum is Senior Vice President of ABN AMRO North America. He is the Chief
Economist for the North American holdings of ABN AMRO, which include the LaSalle Bank in Chicago,
Standard Federal Bank in Michigan, and EAB in new York. ABN AMRO is a Dutch institution, which is
one of the world’s 20 largest banks. In this capacity, Carl provides internal and external briefings for
ABN AMRO’s U.S. affiliates, including its LaSalle bank group. He publishes weekly, monthly, and quarterly
commentary for distribution to the bank’s customers, and provides commentary for CNN and other
media outlets.
Mr. Tannenbaum is Chairman of the American Banker’s Association’s Economic Advisory Committee and
a member of the Blue Chip panel of economic forecasters. In addition to his economic duties, Carl is also
responsible for measuring the organization’s interest rate risk and monitoring its investment portfolio. He
is a member of the bank’s Asset/Liability Management Committee.
Mr. Tannenbaum holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Chicago.
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