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How to Choose a Hedge Provider as a Bank

South State Correspondent

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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Operation Choke Point 2.0

Jeff For Banks

In 2012 the Obama administration launched "Operation Choke Point" ("OCP") which was designed to ensure banks considered the risk of banking payday lenders that were engaged in abusive practices. The FDIC's quarterly Supervisory Insights for Summer 2011 had a list! What were disfavored industries?

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OCC CRA Final Rule: What’s Next for the FDIC and Federal Reserve Board?

CFPB Monitor

When the OCC issued its final Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) rule on May 20, 2020, the agency acted alone without waiting to achieve consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued its proposed rule. As to the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), it had already bowed out of the CRA reform effort in 2019.

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The role of bank directors in managing risk

Abrigo

The FDIC is offering a fresh take on how a bank’s board of directors should understand and manage risk. The regulator’s April edition of Supervisory Insights provides what the FDIC called a “refresher” on its Pocket Guide for Directors, the 1988 booklet outlining the basic duties and responsibilities of a bank’s board of directors.

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A digital-first bank for south Florida

Independent Banker

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. Name: Locality Bank. Keith Costello, Locality Bank. “We

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Community Banking According to Andy

Jeff For Banks

2/ @Schornack The primary asset of the organization was Flagship Bank Minnesota, a Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender with two locations in the Twin Cities Metro Area. 3/ @Schornack The bank was under a cease and desist order and struggling with a high level of troubled assets. I suggest following Andy on Twitter. I think so.

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Federal Reserve publishes paper on bank/fintech partnerships

CFPB Monitor

Last week, the Federal Reserve Board published a paper on partnerships between community banks and fintech companies, “Community Bank Access to Innovation through Partnerships.” Customer-oriented partnerships in which a community bank engages a fintech to enhance various customer-facing aspects of its business (e.g.,

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