Robert Barnes

Robert Barnes is a Deputy Comptroller for Large and Global Financial Institutions at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

In this position, Mr. Barnes oversees the supervision of financial institutions with assets of over $500 billion and those institutions that have a foreign parent. He assumed these duties in December 2024.

Prior to this role, Mr. Barnes served as the Examiner-in-Charge (EIC) of Bank of America.

Mr. Barnes has more than 30 years of bank supervision experience, supervising domestic and international banking activities. In addition to serving as EIC at Capital One and KeyBank, his experience includes leading highly complex commercial credit examinations in mega and other large banks, and evaluating the quality of bank risk management programs, including those relating to interest rate risk and liquidity, information technology, cybersecurity, operational, and compliance risks. He was also a long-time OCC member of the Interagency Country Exposure Risk Committee and former instructor for the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Global Credit Underwriting School.

Mr. Barnes received his commission as a National Bank Examiner in 1990.