The FDIC released guidance today with steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas of Texas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes and flooding. The agency encouraged banks in affected areas to work constructively with borrowers experiencing difficulties due to severe weather, including extending repayment terms, restructuring existing loans or easing terms for new loans. The agency also said it would consider relief from certain filing and publishing requirements.
ABA, associations urge lawmakers to reject Durbin-Marshall bill
Government intervention in the U.S. credit card market would harm consumers, small businesses and community-based financial institutions by reducing choice, increasing costs and fraud risks, and creating economic challenges for smaller institutions, the ABA and 10 financial sector...










