A Community Banker’s Voice at the CFPB

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said his agency will press forward with rulemakings even as federal banking agencies have paused their major initiatives until after President-elect Trump takes office.

The FDIC was ill-prepared to resolve large regional banks at the time of last year’s failures of Silicon Valley Bank and two other banks, the FDIC Office of Inspector General concluded in a new report.

The acquisition of an NFL stadium’s naming rights by a credit union raises the question of why a large tax-exempt institution should have an advantage over its tax-paying competitors, according to a Wall Street Journal opinion column.

Independent Bank in Rockland, Massachusetts, has agreed to buy Enterprise Bancorp in Lowell.

A ‘single stack’ approach to capital would be efficient, flexible for smaller banks, sensitive to risk — and aligned with global standards and U.S. law.

ABA members believe that the Federal Reserve’s discount window processes and operations are opaque, awkward and inefficient, and they have several suggestions for how to improve the service, ABA said.