2025 CDBA Peer Forum

Welcome to the 2025 CDBA Peer Forum website! Thank you for attending the largest annual gathering of CDFI, MDI, and other mission-focused bank representatives.

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Please contact us at cdbapeerforum@pcgloanfund.org if you have any questions.

We’d like to thank our growing list of 2025 Sponsors:
Diamond: FICO; IntraFi
Platinum: Baker Tilly US, LLP; Sones & White
Gold: Banc Consulting Partners; Mission Driven Bank Fund; Smiley Technologies, Inc.
Silver: American Bankers Association; HelloBello Financial; Independent Community Bankers of America; Regions Bank
Bronze: BNY; FUND Consulting; Jones Walker; Logue Advisory Group; National Community Investment Fund; RBC Global Asset Management; Stifel; Woodforest National Bank
Friends: Community Funding Advisors

Here’s the Peer Forum at a glance:

Advocacy Day and Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
Peer Forum Conference: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 and Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Meeting Location: National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium at:
1201 15th St NW, 1st floor, Washington, DC 20005
Attire: Business casual for all Peer Forum activities

Hotel Information: The National Housing Center is located in downtown, Washington D.C., within walking distance of a variety of hotels offering rooms at a wide range of price points. We invite you to explore some of the options in our “Hotel Options List.” Please note that CDBA has not arranged a room block at any individual hotels for this event.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding Advocacy Day, please email Joey Zeldin at zeldinj@pcgloanfund.org.

Schedule:

June 3: Advocacy Day & Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception at 5:30 pm ET
June 4: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET
- Cocktail reception at 6:00 pm ET followed by dinner at 7:30 pm ET at Zaytinya
June 5: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET

Diane Ellis

IntraFi

Senior Managing Director

About me

Diane Ellis is Senior Managing Director at IntraFi. Previously, she was the Director of the Division of Insurance and Research at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She led the FDIC’s efforts to maintain the adequacy of the Deposit Insurance Fund and an effective and fair risk-based premium system, assess economic and financial sector risks to the banking industry, conduct policy-oriented research and analysis for rulemakings, and collect and publish bank financial information and statistics, including the Quarterly Banking Profile.

She has extensive executive-level experience in deposit insurance pricing and fund management and was elected twice to serve as an Executive Council member for the International Association of Deposit Insurers. Earlier, she was a senior financial analyst and bank examiner with the FDIC.

Ms. Ellis received her BBA from Texas Christian University, Master of Public Policy from George Mason University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.