OCC: Compliance Risk Management Rising as Agency Supervisory Priority
The OCC is focusing on credit risk, compliance risk and strategic risk as its top supervisory priorities at community and...
Commercial Lending
Survey: Facing Disruption, Executives Concerned About Access to Capital
Seventy-five percent of middle-market executives -- those representing firms with between $100 million and $3 billion in annual revenue --...
Nine Young Bankers Who Changed America: Alexander Hamilton
As a pioneer in U.S. commercial banking and the original architect of the young republic’s financial infrastructure, there has been...
House Committee Passes Two Flood Insurance Bills
The House Financial Services Committee today approved two bills as part of a legislative package intended to reauthorize the National...
Treasury Department Issues Sweeping Regulatory Reform Recommendations
The Treasury Department tonight issued a 150-page report making dozens of recommendations for how Congress and regulatory agencies can streamline...
ABA Wins Extension on CFPB’s Small Business Lending Request for Information
In response to a request by ABA and 12 other trade groups, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today announced that...
Beyond the Cross-Sell: Deepening Relationship Banking
Regular outreach calls, tracking of customer goals and value-added events help bankers win with customers—without making a hard sell.
ABA Supports Bill to Waive Fees for Vets Seeking SBA Export-Specific Loans
ABA yesterday wrote to Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) in support of the Veteran Small Business Export...
Agencies Remind Banks of Appraisal Waiver Process
With financial institutions -- especially those in rural areas -- facing a critical shortage of qualified appraisers that is slowing...
