Clifford S. Stanford

Cliff leads Alston & Bird’s Financial Services Group, providing experienced advice and strategic counsel to U.S. and foreign banks and nonbank financial services companies on regulatory concerns affecting the banking, financial services, and payments industries. He is widely known in the bank regulatory space across multiple industry verticals and for institutions ranging from regional and money center banks to community banks to payments and technology firms.

Practice leader, firm’s Financial Services Group; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, assistant general counsel; Retail Payments Risk Forum, founding director.

Georgia State University

JD

1995

Emory University

BA

1992