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The federal banking agencies today issued aggregate data on 2015 small-business, small-farm and community development loans that institutions reported under the Community Reinvestment Act. The data, which commercial banks and savings institutions with about $1.2 billion or more in assets are required to report and others can report voluntarily, show that such institutions made about

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By Bert Ely A recent article in the Economic Review published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City inadvertently showed how the FCS’s very favorable tax treatment has distorted agricultural lending competition between banks and the FCS.  The article, titled “Competition in Local Agricultural Lending Market: The Effect of the Farm Credit System,” included

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By Bert Ely As FCW reported last month, Kansas banker Leonard Wolfe testified on ABA’s behalf at the May 19 oversight hearing the Senate Agriculture Committee held on the FCS and its regulator, the Farm Credit Administration. After he testified, Leonard wrote an opinion article for Agri-Pulse, titled: “It’s time to reform the Farm Credit

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ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols today wrote to Senate Agriculture Committee leadership urging lawmakers to hold annual oversight hearings of the Farm Credit Administration — the primary federal regulator of the government-sponsored Farm Credit System.

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In an op-ed in Agri-Pulse today, Leonard Wolfe — president and CEO of United Bank and Trust in Marysville, Kan., and chairman of ABA’s Agricultural Credit Task Force — called on Congress and regulators to step up efforts to oversee the Farm Credit System to ensure that the government sponsored enterprise stays within the scope of its intended mission.

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