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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

In the wake of regional bank failures, one potential answer to equity shorting and bank runs is having the FDIC increase deposit insurance. The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund.

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A Whale of a Tale: Enloe State Bank

Jeff For Banks

She hid them from the Board and regulators with assistance from unnamed co-conspirators." When the TDB shut them down and the FDIC investigators came in, they had to occupy the church next door because of the smell from the fire. The FDIC issued this guidance in June 2011. Well, not actually Pat.

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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

Second, this can be accomplished only if the industry does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff. Third, the regulators need adequate financial resources. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned.

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CFPB turns attention to college banking agreements in annual report on college credit card agreements

CFPB Monitor

Many students are being directed to websites where they are presented with account options for receiving Title IV funds by electronic deposit in ways that do not appear to comply with the “student choice” requirements in the cash management rules including that such options be presented in a “neutral manner” so as to avoid steering.

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

Jeff For Banks

And regulators are getting anxious. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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Are the regulators getting you down?

Jeff For Banks

The FDIC has nearly quadrupled its enforcement actions (“EA”) over the past three years. The productive view about the similarity of EAs is why haven’t we been doing some of the things required by regulators in the first place? Banking is a highly regulated industry, and has been since the Great Depression.