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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. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. They need a marketing person to title their reports.

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The Federal Home Loan Bank System: Lender of Next-to-Last Resort

Jeff For Banks

"The FDIC recently has observed instances of liquidity stress at a small number of insured banks." So opened the Summer 2017 FDIC Supervisory Insights issue. The national average rate for a money market account at the end of last year was 0.09%. And so went your exams. What would you do? Prepare for that.

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Disruptive technology will not kill banks

Jeff For Banks

Now the amount of money in US registered investment companies exceeds that in FDIC insured banks. Lending Club funded $5 billion in loans since its founding in 2007. How long before those corporate accounting system providers strike a deal with some regional or national bank to provide seamless views to corporate customers?

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone. SunTrust - Developed Lightstream , a national online lending platform to provide consumer loans for practically any purpose. Was I, gulp, a futurist? A 26% decline.

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Real Estate: Love it or hate it?

Jeff For Banks

Economists and government officials continue to cite lack of lending activity as a key contributor to our economic malaise. Much of the standoff revolves around real estate secured lending. Our current slump, which started at the end of 2007 was real estate driven. dropped 24% from 2007 through the first quarter 2010.

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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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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending. Below is a timeline of some of the major Amazon Pay milestones: Amazon’s first known payments product, Pay with Amazon, launched in 2007. In 2007, the company also invested in Bill Me Later (fka I4 Commerce).

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