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Will D&I requirements change this year?

Independent Banker

Here are the key areas of D&I policies and practices that community banks may need if these requirements change or become mandatory. How does your bank’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) compliance program compare with the regulatory standards for D&I policies and practices? By Mary Thorson-Wright. Legislative updates.

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Will "Plain Vanilla" Kill Community Banking?

Jeff For Banks

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. But what about Bank of New York Mellon. Below is their segment reporting from 2001 and 2010. I hear and read this often.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Most of the more than 500 financial institutions that failed were community banks.

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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

PYMNTS

The United States Federal Reserve, through Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve, has said that there should be an overhaul of regulations on small business banking that would in turn give a lift to U.S. community banks and small business lending. As has been reported, the U.S.

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Consumer Delinquencies Hit New Low; Trend to Continue, ABA Says

American Banker

The 1.35% delinquency rate was the lowest since at least 2001, and it marked nearly four years of delinquencies below the 15-year average of 2.21%.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Both spread inversions precede recession by 13 months (as in 2000 for the 2001 recession) to 26 months (as in 2006 for the 2008-2009 recession). We just beat out the March, 1991 to March, 2001 record of 120 months, making this the longest expansion since 1854. from 1991 to 2001. Thanks to a CNBC article for these statistics).

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Signaling Caution

Independent Banker

Just about every community bank makes commercial real estate loans. A whopping 95 percent of ICBA members are active commercial real estate (CRE) lenders, according to the latest ICBA Community Bank Lending Survey. Seventy to 75 percent of the $871 million community bank’s portfolio involves CRE loans. “We