Jeff is an Associate Managing Director overseeing the North American team covering US regional banks as well as Canadian banks. Jeff joined the banking team from Moody’s Credit Strategy & Standards where he focused most recently on Public Finance after a long period focused on Financial Institutions. 

Jeff joined Moody’s in 2003 as the accounting specialist supporting the insurance sectors and was one of the founding members of Moody’s Accounting Specialists Group, whose role is to also publish research on complex reporting topics.  In 2004, Jeff changed his primarily role to that of a fundamental credit analyst within the US property & casualty insurance team and over time transitioned to a Group Credit Officer supporting the Financial Institution Group before moving to his current role.   

Prior to joining Moody’s, Jeff spent 12 years in public accounting, most recently with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he was a Senior Manager in the Insurance Audit Practice in New York City. Jeff’s previous experience included a tour in the Accounting Consulting Services Group of PwC’s National Office.  Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated magna cum laude from Skidmore College in New York.

Madhavi Bokil is a Senior Vice President, heading the Macro Research Team of the Credit Strategy and Standards Group. She is a member of Moody’s Macro Board and the lead author of Moody’s Global Macroeconomic Outlook.

Before joining Moody’s Ratings Madhavi held positions as Senior Economist at AIG and GE Capital, undertaking global macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and CCAR stress testing. Prior to that she held a faculty position in the Department of Economics at Clark University, where she pursued research in and taught International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. She holds a BA in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune, India, a MA in Economics from the University of Mumbai, India and a PhD in International Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Peter covers a broad portfolio of global investment, Canadian and US Regional banks and securities firms. 

Prior to joining Moody’s Ratings, Peter led a team at Deutsche Bank that was responsible for managing the bank’s exposure to US broker-dealers. Peter also worked at JPMorgan Chase managing trading and derivatives counterparty risk with regulated financial institutions and hedge funds. Peter holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

40+ years’ professional experience (including 25+ years at Moody’s Ratings).

Allen Tischler is a senior member of Moody’s North American Banking Team covering a broad portfolio of US regional banks and custody banks. He is also Moody’s lead analyst on the Federal Farm Credit Banks and a number of Federal Home Loan Banks.Allen joined the team in 1999 as an Associate Analyst.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Allen completed a Management Associate program with the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. 

Allen holds a B.A. degree from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Mike is a Vice President in Moody’s Financial Institutions Group covering banks, consumer finance companies, and securities firms.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Mike was a senior director at another rating agency where he covered banks, consumer finance companies, asset managers, and securities firms. He led the agency’s internal fintech common interest group and published research on emerging issues in the sector. Prior to that, Mike was a sell-side equity analyst at UBS and Sandler O’Neill Partners where he was a senior analyst covering consumer and specialty finance companies.

Mike holds an MBA from the University of Florida and BBA in accounting from Pace University. He is also a certified public accountant in the state of New York.