Tim Siwy
Deputy Secretary of Banking

Deputy Secretary of Banking

As Deputy Secretary for Non-Depository Institutions, Tim Siwy oversees licensing and registration operations, investigations and compliance examinations for nearly 15,000 non-bank financial services companies and professionals doing business with Pennsylvania consumers. These companies include residential mortgage lenders and brokers, check cashers, auto sales finance companies, pawnbrokers, debt management companies and money transmitters. He also oversees the department’s consumer services unit, which responds to consumer inquiries and complaints.
 
Siwy joined the Department of Banking in 2006 as a special investigator. He was promoted to chief of the licensing division in 2007. In 2008, he was promoted to director of the new Bureau of Compliance, Investigation and Licensing.
 
Prior to joining the department, Siwy had established himself as a distinguished investigator in the private sector and in the U.S. Army. He supervised investigative operations for a major federal defense contractor and served as a special investigator with a major insurance company. He supervised, managed and investigated felony criminal activities affecting the U.S. Army in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and in southern Germany. He also served as a trainer and inspector of federal and military criminal investigative units.
 
Siwy earned a bachelor’s degree from Excelsior College and has done graduate-level work at the FBI National Academy. He is a member of the FBI National Academy Association and is a certified fraud examiner.