Blake Marsh Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Banking Research Economic Research Division* Conduct research on financial regulation and commercial banking * Prepare briefings on financial market developments for bank senior management* Prepare speeches and statements on financial market topics for senior bank management

Banking and Financial AnalysisDivision of Monetary Affairs• Monitor developments in the U.S. commercial banking sector and prepare written and oral analysis for board members, senior division management, and staff economists.• Participate in the preparation of internal and external policy documents including the Tealbook, Monetary Policy Report to Congress, and the Summary of Economic Projections.• Oversee all production aspects of the Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States (H.8 Report) including maintenance of production code, quarterly benchmarking, and weekly production activities.• Produce written and oral analysis of bank balance sheet growth forecasts. Contribute to assembly and maintenance of all associated production code.• Quickly and accurately prepare ad hoc analysis using large datasets (>1 million obs) hosted on a variety of database platforms.• Organize quarterly conference calls on current banking topics for financial analysts throughout the FR system.

Bank Holding Company ReportsDivision of Information Technology• Utilized statistical software to verify the accuracy of data received at the Board. Developed additional data verification checks and reports to supplement data production duties. • Developed and completed quality control tests of programming changes to the transmission systems used for data processing throughout the FRS system. • Presented recent trends in bank regulatory and consumer data to senior division management.

• Briefed senior level Congressional staff, government officials, and members of the financial press on trends in the U.S. housing sector. • Assisted in the production of official industry responses to pending regulatory matters affecting the mortgage insurance industry. Oversaw and gathered insight from industry-level committees about such matters.• Prepared a monthly report on aggregate industry statistics widely used by industry analysts and the financial press.

Ph.D., Economics

Dissertation Title: Essays on Post-Crisis Commercial Banking

Ma, Financial Economics

Ba, Economics