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Regulation and Compliance: Ready for Review

Independent Banker

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.”

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Community bankers take the high road

Independent Banker

As policymakers continue to review financial services regulations, the largest banks are working to roll back rules that were designed to mitigate the risks they pose to the financial system. I’ll be traveling to Memphis to visit Vining Sparks and CRA Partners. Where I’ll be this month.

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Four Months into 2016 and Only Two Bank Failures

American Banker

When state and federal regulators closed Trust Company Bank in Memphis, Tenn., bank failure this year. on Friday, it was only the second U.S.

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