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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

A bank trade association CEO asked me a couple of questions while he was researching an op-ed piece. Shouldn't the CFPB work to address the impediments to starting a bank in LMI markets rather than punish community banks who scrambled to serve their customers when the economy shut down?

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

My method was to search for the best banks based on total return to shareholders over the past five years. I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments.

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