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FDIC hires counsel to investigate now defunct Operation Choke Point

CFPB Monitor

On November 15, 2018, in response to a November 7, 2018 letter from Republican Senators , FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams announced that the FDIC has engaged outside counsel to investigate the Obama-era Operation Choke Point, under which the FDIC and other government agencies pressured banks not to do business with payday lenders.

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FDIC Chair’s recent interview gives insight into FDIC’s agenda

CFPB Monitor

McWilliams stated that the FDIC’s top priorities included: (1) reducing regulatory burden on community banks; (2) increasing the speed with which the FDIC reviews charter and deposit insurance applications; and (3) assisting banks to introduce new financial products that serve underserved communities.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models

Gonzobanker

Imagine one big party of more than 1,000 larger bank acquirers, smaller bank potential sellers, salivating investment bankers, and pen-in-hand attorneys full of big grins and big plans for 2018. 2018 Strategies for Bank Execs. The post Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models appeared first on Gonzobanker.

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Ground attack or air strike: Winning the banking customer battle

Insights on Business

Contact your IBM representative to learn more about IBM’s thought leadership in banking digital and branch transformation. 1] Source: Accelerating digital transformation in banking, Deloitte, Oct 2018. [2] 2] Source: 2018 U.S. 3] Source: FDIC banking industry data, 1994-2017.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2023 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Although one might argue that First Citizens BancShares of Raleigh is a SIFI as it climbed to the 19th largest in the country with its Silicon Valley Bridge Bank acquisition from the FDIC, and that the FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. It has not been all sunshine and rainbows for TBBK. NasdaqGS: FCNC.A) In 1935, R.P.

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Fed Chairman Concerned Over Shrinking Bank Market

PYMNTS

months in the first half of 2018, from 5.6 The average merger review time at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) declined between 2016 and 2018, too, reports in The Wall Street Journal said. months in the first half of 2017. “The loss of the branch often meant more than the loss of access to financial services.

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Finance Policy Predictions 2020: AML, Authentication, Collections & CRA

FICO

In 2018, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling which struck down or vacated, in part, a previous 2015 Declaratory Ruling and Order made by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While current FCC leadership has tried to address some of the other issues implicated in the 2018 decision (e.g.,