About Carter Golembe

    Carter H. Golembe is a noted writer and speaker on banking matters and was the publisher and principal author of The Golembe Reports, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida.  He is  the Senior Trustee of the Support Group for Modern National Banking, a "think-tank" located in Washington DC.

    Dr. Golembe began his career as a financial economist with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1951.  He served as deputy manager of the American Bankers Association from 1960 to 1966.  In 1966, he founded a banking research and consulting firm, headquartered in Washington, DC, that was nationally known for over 20 years and described by the head of a major banking trade association as the “Mercedes of the industry.”  The firm was acquired in 1989.  Dr. Golembe subsequently joined The Secura Group as chairman of the board where he served until 1994.

    In 1979 he founded the International Financial Conference (IFC), an educational corporation comprised of 50 regional banks and other financial institutions dedicated to a better understanding of multinational banking and international financial issues.  He served as the Executive Manager of the IFC for the next 16 years, and then as Senior Advisor to its Board of Directors until 1998.

    Dr. Golembe served for ten years as a director of Barnett Banks of Florida (Audit Committee) and is the co-author of a college-level textbook, Federal Regulation of Banking.  He is a frequent contributor to professional journals in the United States and abroad, commenting on public policy issues affecting financial institutions.  He holds a doctorate degree in economics from Columbia University in New York City and a bachelor of laws degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

    Dr. Golembe’s new book will be a personal history, drawing upon his various banking experiences. These included, in addition to those already mentioned: teaching banking and economic history at a college level, serving on the staff of Senator Wallace Bennett of Utah during the 1957 hearings on Federal Reserve policy held by the Senate Finance Committee, lecturing at banking schools such as Stonier and Pacific Coast Banking, managing the ABA's State Bank Division (1963-67), and acting as a senior consultant on banking expansion strategies (as founder and CEO of a major bank consulting firm). His activities in banking over the years have been so many and so varied that he has selected as the tentative title for his new book: “I Never Made a Loan.” Dr. Golembe describes the book as “personal and serious, but with more than a trace of irreverency.”