Terry Roth Leads Federal Reserve Banks’ Financial Services Policy Committee Support Office

Terrence (Terry) Roth has been appointed senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Banks' Financial Services Policy Committee (FSPC) Support Office, effective September 1, 2012. Roth succeeds Robert Price, senior vice president of the Financial Services Policy Committee Support Office, who retired on August 31, 2012. The FSPC Support Office works out of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Roth brings 39 years of experience to his new role, including three years in the Financial Services Policy Committee Support Office, nine years in the Federal Reserve System's Retail Payments Office, and the balance of his career in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Marketing, Quality, Check, and Data Systems Support departments. Roth was named assistant vice president in 1989 and vice president in 1997. He was instrumental in designing the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's payments products and pricing strategies and in developing the Federal Reserve System's Check 21 product portfolio.

Price led the Financial Services Policy Committee Support Office since 2009. Prior to that, he was a senior vice president in the Federal Reserve System's Retail Payments Office, which he joined in 2001. Price started his career in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Audit Department in 1974 and moved to the Check area in 1979. He was named assistant vice president in 1983, vice president in 1986, and senior vice president in 1999. Among Price's many accomplishments are serving as the senior project leader for the Federal Reserve's check modernization and check restructuring initiatives as well as leading the System efforts to implement Check 21.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that along with the Board of Governors in Washington DC comprise the Federal Reserve System. Part of the US central bank, the Cleveland Fed participates in the formulation of our nation’s monetary policy, supervises banking organizations, provides payment and other services to financial institutions and to the US Treasury, and performs many activities that support Federal Reserve operations System-wide. In addition, the Bank supports the well-being of communities across the Fourth Federal Reserve District through a wide array of research, outreach, and educational activities.

The Cleveland Fed, with branches in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, serves an area that comprises Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia.

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