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U.S. Banker July 2010 Joe Adler |
First the Failures, Then the Lawsuits Looking to recoup some of the billions spent cleaning up after the financial crisis, the FDIC eyes legal action against officers and directors of failed banks.  |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Joe Adler |
The Feds Are Coming New directors and officers coverage protects nonbank financial services directors pay from government clawbacks -- making the idea of FDIC nonbank seizures not so abstract.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
Crisis Tales The aftermath of the financial crisis has left its mark on banks in a variety of ways. As these three real life stories show, while the crisis spelled calamity for some, it simultaneously opened up opportunity for others.  |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 Jim Freer |
Capital Management: Banking's Trickiest Juggling Act More than ever, directors are keeping their eyes fixed on the balance sheet, in an effort to reach perfect harmony between regulatory soundness and profitability.  |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
Welcome to the Great Unknown The ink is dry on Dodd-Frank, and now bank executives and board members are cracking open the 2,300-page rulebook to try to discern what it all means for the industry going forward.  |
U.S. Banker May 2010 John Engen |
Should FBOP Have Been Saved? To some, the Illinois bank holding company got what it deserved. To others, it s a victim of an inflexible process that favors big banks over small ones and robs neighborhoods of their best corporate citizens. Is the government picking winners and losers?  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen |
Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know.  |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
Back in the Saddle Former FDIC chairman Bill Isaac has taken the reins as the new chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp. Here, he talks about his career, growing the bank, and why, in his view, Dodd-Frank is an unmitigated disaster.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 John Engen |
Eat or Be Eaten Banks that have strong balance sheets, excellent credit quality and first-rate regulatory compliance skills will thrive in today's challenging operating environment. Banks that lack those characteristics may be forced to sell out.  |
U.S. Banker April 2010 Michael Sisk |
Boardroom Burdens Bank directors must be more hands-on than ever, exercising tighter control over management and setting strategic direction. Here are five issues that need attention now.  |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 Jeanine Catalano et al. |
Effective Strategies to Support Board Deliberations A toolkit of five practical techniques to use when gathering information and considering complex issues.  |
U.S. Banker February 2010 Rob Garver |
What Now? If Washington really wants to get credit flowing to small businesses, it could modify TARP, relax capital requirements and rethink its stance on industrial loan companies. Or it could do nothing at all.  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Paul M. Thomson |
Is the Law of Unintended Consequences at Work at the FDIC? The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) temporarily increased the limit on bank checking and savings deposits to $250,000 per qualified account through 2009.  |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 Scott Sorrels |
Do I Need to Get My Own Lawyer? There are times when directors and officers of a troubled financial institution facing an enforcement order should consider hiring counsel, separate and apart from bank counsel, to best protect their personal interest.  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally |
Toughing It Out in 2009 The results of the Bank Director/Grant Thornton LLP 16th Bank Executive Survey show that bankers are determined to shore up their foundations and capitalize on strengths to survive the year ahead.  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally |
Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option.  |
CFO March 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan |
The Big Freeze CFOs hope government intervention will soon thaw frozen credit markets. That's not likely.  |
U.S. Banker August 2008 John Engen |
The Other Shoe... A commercial real estate fallout promises to be far more devastating than the subprime crisis, because this market is so much more pervasive - a linchpin business for so many institutions, including most community banks.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 Charles Keenan |
Sleep Insurance: How the Market is Affecting Your D&O Coverage Banks face a double whammy of sorts, since rockier times will make it almost necessary to raise coverage limits for directors in order to retain or lure them.  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2009 Melanie Rodier |
Bank Enforcement Cease and Desist Actions Quickly Rising The financial crisis is causing a dramatic rise in the number of cease and desist orders by bank regulators and should be a warning sign for bank managers and directors.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program.  |
U.S. Banker February 2009 Anthony Malakian |
Community Banks Paying for Bigger Brothers' Sins Community bankers have many reasons to be pessimistic about 2009, including the added pressure of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation raising the risk-based assessment rates in order to restore the Deposit Insurance Fund.  |
CFO November 1, 2010 Vincent Ryan |
Making Sense of Bank Reform The Dodd-Frank Act is arguably as inscrutable as the institutions and instruments it is supposed to fix.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
M&A in 2010: The Year of the No-frill Deal There are pockets of opportunity everywhere this year, as most analysts and dealmakers agree. But you won't find anyone more risk averse than bankers these days.  |
CFO March 1, 2010 Ryan & Leone |
Brighter Days Bank CFOs describe how they've weathered the storm, dealt with TARP, and learned many invaluable lessons.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Millligan |
Is the Community Bank Business Model Broken? The concept of community banking is still viable, but the model that many small institutions employ has to change.  |
U.S. Banker November 2009 John Engen |
CRE Stress Another Test in Balancing Interests Commercial real estate loans are viewed as a time bomb, but will stricter exams threaten the industry's - and the economy's - recovery?  |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Ben Johnson |
Regulators Turn Up Heat On Local Banks Community and mid-size banks, which comprise the bulk of all commercial real estate lending in this country, are once again under the watchful eye of regulators.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 TK Kerstetter |
A Tribute to Bill Seidman Bank Director honors its late publisher, supporter, and friend, Bill Seidman, who passed away this year.  |
U.S. Banker April 2009 John Engen |
The Experiment For Sheila Bair, who had taken the helm of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. two years earlier, the IndyMac failure was a defining moment.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 John R. Engen |
The Market for M&A in 2009: What Happens Next? With billions in government-spawned capital poised to funnel through the financial industry pipelines, many deal watchers are wondering whether such financing will pop the cork on a flood of deals -- or stall potential transactions until the outlook is clearer.  |
U.S. Banker March 2011 Rob Garver |
Sowing Caution Though the ag sector remains strong, regulators are warning banks to avoid concentration risk - a message that is not going over too well.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen |
Tough as Nails Lockport, New York-based First Niagara Financial Corp. keeps hammering out high performance in good times and bad.  |
CFO March 15, 2006 Anne Stuart |
Serenity Now! Board members worried about compliance-related lawsuits may want to revisit their directors' and officers' insurance policies.  |
CFO March 1, 2007 Rob Garver |
Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend.  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 21, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
TARP Can't Stanch Financial Crisis, Experts Say Experts agree that the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout program is insufficient to spur lending because banks still have far from an optimal balance of debts to assets.  |
U.S. Banker May 2011 John Engen |
You Can Go Home Again John Kanas pulled off a stunning turnaround. But as it turns out, he s just getting started. The longtime New York banker intends to bring BankUnited to his hometown.  |
U.S. Banker July 2009 John Engen |
Match Game If the investments in companies like BankUnited result in stronger franchises, it will confirm that perhaps there is a greater role for private equity in the banking industry.  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 4, 2014 |
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering Lending to small businesses has not returned to levels seen before the financial crisis. Karen Mills, former head of the US Small Business Administration, explains the reasons.  |
FDIC FYI April 11, 2002 |
Economic Conditions and Emerging Risks in Banking The report describes recent signs of a consumer-led recovery in the U.S. economy that may have begun in the first quarter...  |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Joe Adler |
Get Ready for Rising Rates Near-zero interest rates won't last forever, and regulators are warning banks -- particularly those that added long-term assets using short-term funds -- to take steps to manage their risk.  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
Compensation's New Normal Welcome to the new world of compensation - a place where up is down, confusion reigns, and tensions are rising.  |
U.S. Banker February 2010 Donald Musso et al. |
How Regulators Are Inhibiting an Economic Recovery Raising capital levels for banks deters new lending. Now is not the time for higher capital standards, but for enforcing standards already in place.  |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Rob Garver |
SBA Aims to Attract More Banks The lower fees and higher guarantees enacted for the government s small-business lending programs have some in the industry optimistic that interest by banks might surge.  |
U.S. Banker January 2010 |
What's On Bankers' Minds? Seven banking CEOs took a break to talk about the state of their industry as it fights through the worst recession in decades.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
Winds of Change These are truly challenging times for banks, and for bank directors. A weak U.S. economy has made it difficult for most institutions to find enough good lending opportunities to go around.  |
CFO April 1, 2011 Vincent Ryan |
The Big Fail Despite the reach of Dodd-Frank, the "too-big-to-fail" bank dilemma lives on.  |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 |
Banks Prepare for 2010 This contains highlights of our latest quarterly research on challenges and strategic issues for the year ahead.  |