Richard Daingerfield has been a banking lawyer and teacher of banking law for 45 years.

Rich began his legal career at a prominent New Jersey law firm before joining the in-house legal department of National Westminster Bank in New York City in 1986.  He served for several years as EVP & Chief Legal Officer of NatWest Holdings and, after the Royal Bank of Scotland acquired NatWest in 2000, EVP & Chief Legal Officer of RBS’s US banking operations.  From 2010 until he retired in 2014, he was EVP & General Counsel of Citizens Financial Group, then a $130 billion bank based in Boston.

Currently, Rich serves on the board of directors of Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, a $7 billion bank based in New Jersey.  He chairs the board’s Risk Committee and is a member of its Executive Committee and its Audit Committee.  He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Boston University Law School’s Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law, for which he received the John Baerst Award for Excellence in Teaching.  He is the author of a book based on his course.  Rich also teaches a course in Business Law & Ethics in an MBA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Rich is a member of the ABA Banking Law Committee’s Leadership Council and has chaired two subcommittees.  In 2023, he received the ABA Banking Law Committee’s award for outstanding service.  He is also a former chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee.

Rich earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors from Rutgers College and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.