American Banker

MAY 17, 2024

In this week's edition of the American Banker news quiz, gauge your understanding of topics like cybersecurity testing, the impact of high interest rates on community banks, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg and more.

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FDIC Community Bank Community Cyber Security 56

CFPB Monitor

JULY 15, 2020

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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FDIC Community Bank Community Regulation 78

CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FDIC has issued a request for information that seeks comment on how the FDIC can make its communications with insured depository institutions (IDIs) “more effective, streamlined, and clear.” The RFI contains specific questions on which the FDIC seeks input that address three topics: efficiency, ease of access, and content.

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FDIC Community Bank Policies Community 74

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 31, 2021

The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board have issued a guide that is intended to assist community banks in conducting due diligence when considering relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies (Guide). Banks are instructed to reference relevant guidance from the agencies that is listed in a footnote.

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Community Bank Community Fintech Company 78

Abrigo

APRIL 23, 2015

A new bill proposed on April 16 aims to increase the exam cycle period for a larger pool of community banks. would make more banks eligible for an 18-month exam cycle as opposed to the norm of a 12-month schedule. If implemented, hundreds of additional banks would be eligible for the longer cycle.

Community Bank 150

Community Bank Community Survey FDIC 150

Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

By eliminating or revising some of the items that banks must include in their call reports the FFIEC hopes to streamline the reporting and decrease the amount of time spent on them. The article allowed banking executives to weigh in on the subject. Sound is a $500 million institution.

Community Bank 150

Community Bank Community FDIC Survey 150

American Banker

JANUARY 4, 2024

One of the smallest banks in the country hasn't consistently made a profit since 2007 and has been the subject of enforcement actions. The FDIC's public rebuke against it indicates a last-ditch effort to figure out a less messy solution than receivership.

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FDIC Utah Community Bank Community 72

Abrigo

JANUARY 8, 2016

The GAO acknowledged that community banks, credit unions and their professional industry associations reported increased compliance burdens and reduced activity in specific business activities, such as certain mortgage lending, as a result of Dodd-Frank. A lengthy report released recently by the U.S.

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Regulation FDIC Survey Community Bank 150

American Banker

APRIL 25, 2024

Liberty Bank in Salt Lake City had been "structurally unprofitable" since 2008, according to its regulators. Experts criticized the FDIC for allowing the bank's demise to play out in slow motion.

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Utah FDIC Regulation Community Bank 63

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

While the pace of bank regulatory changes has diminished from a few years ago, several issues will either become effective or likely develop in 2023. Community banks must continue to stay focused on regulatory discussions and remain nimble to respond to proposals and address requirements quickly and accurately. Source: FDIC.

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Compliance FDIC Community Bank Community 100

Abrigo

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Add FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg to the list of regulators and industry officials warning about growing credit risks in the U.S. The FDIC said that the percentage of loans and securities with maturities of three or more years hit the highest percentage in the 18 years of data records, rising to 34.6

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FDIC Lending Community Bank Industry 150

BankInovation

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has taken steps to promote fintech partnerships and diversity and inclusion within the financial services industry, both internally at the FDIC and among the institutions it regulates, FDIC Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams said during the LendIt Fintech USA 2020 conference Wednesday.

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FDIC Fintech Innovation Conference 52

Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

The FDIC has released a proposal to indemnify the banks with assets less than $10 billion from the costs of raising the Deposit Insurance Fund reserve ratio from 1.15 The provision will ultimately provide thousands of community banks a reduction in deposit-insurance premiums of up to 30 percent. percent to 1.35

FDIC 70

FDIC Community Bank Community Lending 70

Abrigo

APRIL 12, 2016

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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Management FDIC Risk Management Community Bank 150

Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

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

Florida 91

Florida Community Bank Community FDIC 91

Jeff For Banks

MAY 7, 2016

Recently a former bank director and active bank stock investor asked me about the rise of FinTechs and how it impacts community banks. I think technology firms are going to change banking forever. But the death of the community bank is exaggerated. Banks have customer trust. Banks have capital.

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Community Bank Community Fintech FDIC 60

Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 2, 2021

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.

Community Bank 78

Community Bank Community Minnesota Metro 78

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

A bill that would give regional banks a break on regulation was before the U.S. The bill also gives regulators more discretion in deciding when to require stress tests of capital adequacy for banks with between $100 billion and $250 billion in assets in the event of another crisis,” according to a summary of the bill in MarketWatch.

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Regulation Regional Community Community Bank 100

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 20, 2020

federal and state financial institution regulators have taken meaningful, proactive steps to acknowledge financial inequality issues, reach out to traditionally underserved populations to expand access to credit, and further protect consumers from discrimination. This blog post contains a summary of those efforts.

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Regulation FDIC Community Lending 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the trade group for community banks, is calling on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to deny a federal deposit insurance application by payment terminal company Square.

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Groups FDIC Community Bank Community 102

CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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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Fintech Community Bank Community FDIC 78

Long Lasting Ideas

JUNE 8, 2016

Often in this space, we’ve written about how Washington has made community banks its personal punching bag. Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, the FDIC and other financial regulators – as well as Congress and the White House — have not been friendly to community banks, all while bailing out Wall Street big boys.

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Washington Community Bank Community FDIC 40

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

This is particularly true for community banks preparing to undergo their next regulatory safety and soundness or compliance examination. The better prepared, the less likely they are to run afoul of the continually shifting regulations. Benjamin Franklin famously said that “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Compliance 101

Compliance Regulation Community Bank Community 101

CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2020

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) includes the following key provisions that affect financial institutions and regulation of financial institutions: Section 4003 – Emergency Relief and Taxpayer Provisions. Section 4012 – Temporary Relief For Community Banks.

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Regulation United States Community Bank National 122

Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 12, 2019

Then, as now, my working theory is that the best boards are ones that approve strategy and hold management accountable for achieving it, and effectively dispatch their duties as described by the FDIC above. Each board member is an ingredient in the effectiveness of the entire board.

Community Bank 60

Community Bank Community FDIC Dallas 60

Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 12, 2019

Then, as now, my working theory is that the best boards are ones that approve strategy and hold management accountable for achieving it, and effectively dispatch their duties as described by the FDIC above. Each board member is an ingredient in the effectiveness of the entire board.

Community Bank 60

Community Bank Community FDIC Dallas 60

ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Regulators need to understand the pressures that banks face to innovate and support those efforts, FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams said today. The post McWilliams: Regulators Need to Support Bank Innovation Efforts appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Regulation Innovation FDIC Community Bank 45

CFPB Monitor

APRIL 3, 2023

On March 30, 2023, the White House endorsed several proposals to strengthen regulatory requirements for the banking industry in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures. Continue Reading

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Regulation Industry FDIC Community Bank 78

American Banker

MARCH 20, 2020

The FDIC's call for FASB to postpone the loan-loss accounting standard's effective date could put pressure on other agencies to follow suit.

FDIC 72

FDIC Regulation Community Bank Community 72

American Banker

APRIL 6, 2020

After Congress temporarily lowered the leverage ratio used by smaller institutions, the federal agencies said they would allow a one-year transition before banks have to comply again with the regular standard.

Community Bank 43

Community Bank Community Capital Regulation 43

American Banker

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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Community Bank 54

Community Bank FDIC Community Compliance 54

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“A lot of people have this notion that it will never happen to my business or my bank, because it’s too small,” says Linda Comerford, assistant vice president of incident response and cyber services at AmTrust Financial Services Inc. The bank was only able to get fully up and running after it paid a negotiated ransom.”.

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Montana Policies Resources FDIC 152

American Banker

JULY 18, 2016

on Wednesday will hold a meeting of its advisory committee on community banking, the agency announced. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Community Bank Meeting Community FDIC 28

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Bank Innovation's list of people to watch in 2019 include the head of a large bank, the head of a community bank, a regulator, an investor with money to burn and the head of one of the biggest fintechs in the industry. The people on the list were chosen by BI's editors and are listed in […].

Community Bank 170

Community Bank Community Regulation Innovation 170

Abrigo

AUGUST 3, 2015

The ABA’s 2015 Survey of Bank Compliance Officers , conducted February through March 2015, had participation from more than 450 financial institutions, with almost 80 percent being community banks. A recent Forbes commentary, Dodd-Frank, Community Bank Decline, And The Effect On U.S.

Compliance 150

Compliance Community Bank Community Survey 150

ABA Community Banking

MARCH 16, 2023

As regulators conduct their reviews, Brown said they should look for “broader vulnerabilities” in the banking system and take steps to mitigate them. Brown asks regulators for ‘comprehensive review’ of bank failures appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. The post Sen.

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Regulation System FDIC Community Bank 52

American Banker

OCTOBER 16, 2020

First City Bank of Florida had suffered “longstanding capital and asset quality issues” that were unrelated to the pandemic, the FDIC said.

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Florida FDIC Regulation Capital 62