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

Jeff For Banks

Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. How significant was CRE lending to the souring of bank loan portfolios?

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

Jeff For Banks

Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. The old borrow short, lend long strategy.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. In the above blog post, I discussed Apple and Bank of New York Mellon. Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

2019 Mehrsa Baradaran Baradaran, Mehrsa The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 2019 Neil Barofsky Barofsky, Neil Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street 2012 Patricia Beard Beard, Patricia Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley 2007 Ben S.

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