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Community Banking According to Andy

Jeff For Banks

8/ @Schornack It is a niche that has only grown over time and one that has shown very little net losses since we started making these loans around the U of M in 2005-2006. 9/ @Schornack Running a bank is not much different than running a small business. Basic idea is that sales to a bank are loans. Inventory are deposits.

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Regulators Give Wells Fargo’s Top Examiner The Boot

PYMNTS

The lead regulator for U.S. banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, removed Wells Fargo’s most senior bank examiner, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Bradley Linskens was reportedly removed from his position as a result of the bank’s unauthorized accounts scandal that surfaced last year.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

And regulators are getting anxious. and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. We perform this service for dozens of community banks. Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

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ILCs are used to form industrial loan companies, better known as industrial banks. An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956.

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John Gorman, CSBS general counsel, dies after battle with cancer

American Banker

Known by his nickname Buz, John Gorman helped the Conference of State Bank Supervisors launch its nationwide cooperative agreement in 2006 and the National Multistate Licensing System for mortgage lenders two years later.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

Depositors woke up and thought "what is my bank paying me?" The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account.

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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

Outside of those two crisis periods, American banking failures have generally been uncommon, at least since the end of the Great Depression. banks failed a year. bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Before SVB, Signature, and First Republic, in fact, it had been over two years since the last bank failure.

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