Community Banks See Decline in Small Business Loan Volume
Insights from a Fed/CSBS survey of the community bank scene.
Insights from a Fed/CSBS survey of the community bank scene.
Banker Mike Pate is a longtime public servant with a passion for industry advocacy.
By Stephen Newton ith nearly $690 billion in outstanding loans for small businesses in 2016, banks have a proven track record of successfully providing credit for small business owners and entrepreneurs. For nearly 50 years, one way banks have done this is through small business investment companies, or SBICs, which are private organizations licensed by
In North Carolina, 2017 will be remembered for the wave of mergers it brought.
Efforts to go green have been a win for banks, and lead to a more resilient and prosperous future for communities.
Bankers do a lot more than just accept deposits, make loans and underwrite securities. They give advice, warn clients against dangerous strategies—and even sometimes act as referees.
Gary Cohn — director of the National Economic Council at the White House and one of President Trump’s top economic advisers — will be a keynote speaker at the ABA Annual Convention that starts next weekend in Chicago. Cohn is scheduled to speak on Oct. 16.
ABA won a helpful exemption in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final small-dollar lending rule that protects banks’ ability to make small-dollar “accommodation loans” to customers.
On the inaugural episode of the ABA Newsbytes Podcast, co-hosts Evan Sparks and Shaun Kern discuss the Equifaxtravaganza on Capitol Hill and the banking agencies’ first step toward simplifying the Basel III capital rules.
The House today passed H.R. 1624, a bipartisan, ABA-backed bill that would expand banks’ ability to count municipal securities as high-quality liquid assets under the Liquidity Coverage Ratio.