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Lending Scandal Adds To Corporate Japan’s Compliance Woes

PYMNTS

Regional lender in Japan, Suruga Bank , apologized this week and admitted that staff may have knowingly processed loan documents that were falsified for a struggling property investment scheme, adding to the list of corporate scandals plaguing the country, reports in Bloomberg said. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shinz?

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. That year, installations further south, in the region that includes Brownsville and Corpus Christi, supported an estimated 41,000 jobs and contributed about $4.6 Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

Moving all customers to digital statements, restructuring compliance reviews and employee onboarding are just some of the more popular efforts that banks are undertaking in 2023. Lending Focus – Interest Rate Sensitivity and Credit Accuracy. Many banks, for example, are still hyper-competitive in multifamily lending.

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CFPB issues 2014 fair lending report

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB has issued a fair lending report covering its fair lending activities during 2014. The report states that in 2014, CFPB fair lending supervisory and public enforcement actions required institutions to provide approximately $224 million in remediation.

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FDIC Releases Formal and Informal Enforcement Actions Manual

Abrigo

Informal actions are generally appropriate for institutions that receive a composite rating of “3” for safety and soundness or consumer compliance. Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) – an informal agreement between an institution and the FDIC, which is signed by both parties (usually designated individual(s) in the Regional Office of the FDIC).

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise. Nationwide lending! Clearly, blue-suit regulators stood out.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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