OCC: Credit, Strategic Risk Leading Issues for Small, Midsize Banks
The OCC is focusing on credit risk and strategic risk as the top risk priorities in its supervision of community...
Commercial Lending
Millennial Small Biz Owners Look to Loans to Fuel Growth
Small business owners from the millennial generation (those aged roughly 18 to 35) are highly growth-oriented and committed to their...
How Mutual Savings Banks Catalyze Communities
As a mutual community bank celebrates its 150th birthday, it offers lessons for the future of banking.
State Associations Urge Action on Rural Appraiser Shortage
The state bankers associations wrote to federal regulators and the Appraisal Qualifications Board today urging action to address a critical...
U.S. Chamber’s Donohue Calls for Financial Reg Relief
Thomas Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, today issued a full-throated defense of the banking industry...
Lawmakers Express Concern over HVCRE Treatment
Increased regulatory capital requirements for high-volatility commercial real estate loans could disrupt the overall availability of development credit to the...
CFPB Updates Rulemaking Agenda for Remainder of Year
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today updated its rulemaking agenda for the remainder of 2016. According to the agenda, the...
Weekly Infobyte: Rapid Growth of Marketplace Lending
Three top nonbank fintech marketplace lenders originated nearly $12 billion in loans in 2015, up from less than half a...
