ABA to FCA: Proposed Rule Changes Could Destabilize Financial Markets
ABA told the Farm Credit Administration today that proposed changes to regulatory capital rules could potentially destabilize financial markets and ...
Tag: Farm Credit System
Farm Credit Watch: Another Vacancy on the FCA Board Would Cripple It
By Bert Ely The FCA is administered by a three-member board of directors; the chairman of the board also serves ...
Farm Credit Watch: Fitch Lowers FCS Debt Rating Outlook to Negative
By Bert Ely On Aug. 3, Fitch, one of the three major debt rating agencies, revised its Rating Outlook for ...
Farm Credit Watch: FCS Dramatically Boosted Its Liquidity During March
The FCS’s issuance of short-term securities, called discount notes, nearly doubled during the first quarter, rising by $17 billion between ...
Sen. Moran Urges Support for Ag Banking Legislation
In a recent column in the Kansas Banker magazine, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) urged support for an ABA-advocated bill that ...
FCA Seeks Comments on Two Potentially Significant Regulatory Changes
In January, the Farm Credit Administration proposed two potentially significant regulations that could have mixed effects on the FCS, and ...
Resolving the Farm Credit System’s Growing Credit-Quality Problems
By Bert Ely American agriculture is experiencing extraordinary financial stress, unlike anything farmers and ranchers have experienced in several decades. ...
ABA Survey: Credit Quality Tops List of Concerns for Ag Lenders in 2019
With the farm economy in the midst of a prolonged downturn, the primary concern among ag lenders in 2019 was ...
Restructuring the Farm Credit System—Why Now and How to Do It
The FCS, America’s least known government-sponsored-enterprise, has an excessively complex and increasingly obsolete organizational structure. ... Simplifying the structure of ...
Ely Calls for Fundamental Restructuring of Farm Credit System
In a white paper circulated recently on Capitol Hill, industry veteran Bert Ely called for an overhaul of the Farm ...
