ABA announced today that it will donate $100,000 dollars to a Hurricane Florence relief fund created by the North Carolina Bankers Association. ABA will also match donations made by ABA employees. The fund will assist bank employees and their families affected by the storm and the historic flooding that followed. In 2017, ABA made similar donations after hurricanes Harvey, Irma and ...

As banks in the southeastern United States begin to recover from Hurricane Florence, the American Bankers Association’s dedicated hurricane preparedness and response webpage offers bankers useful tools and resources to assist with the recovery process. T

Anticipating the potentially devastating effects of Hurricane Florence on the southeastern United States, federal and state financial regulatory agencies today issued a joint statement reminding banks of supervisory expectations related to disaster recovery.

With Hurricane Florence expected to make landfall on the southeastern Atlantic coast later this week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the North Carolina Commissioner of Banks today preemptively authorized banks affected by the severe weather to close.

The House today passed an ABA-supported measure extending the National Flood Insurance Program through Nov. 30, providing certainty for lenders and borrowers during this year’s hurricane season.

ABA today urged the House to vote to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through Nov. 30, providing certainty for lenders and borrowers during this year’s hurricane season.

Hancock and Whitney each had more than a century of deep history in their hometown markets -- and, more importantly, a remarkable shared story, one that Hancock Whitney CEO John Hairston describes in the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast. 

Amid a record-setting wave of disaster losses in 2017 -- including from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, plus wildfires in the West -- small businesses’ insurance gaps meant that credit availability was a key factor in their ability to recover, according to a report today from the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Dallas, Richmond and San Francisco.