ABI Blog Exchange

2021-03-04
The backing from the Emergency Capital Investment Fund is meant to help financial institutions direct aid to lower-income communities struggling in the pandemic.

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2021-03-04
Lawrence Seidman will provide capital markets advice and financial analysis to the Pennsylvania company.

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2021-03-04
Technology is helping some institutions find new growth opportunities as lending contracts, but many CUs also were able to use data to assist members during the early days of the pandemic.

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2021-03-04
MUFG Union Bank is offering a new deposit product to commercial clients who want to see their cash reserves used to help finance sustainable projects, such as renewable energy or green transportation.

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2021-03-04
Building the processing tech was the easy part. Finding the right mix of users and transactions posed many challenges.

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2021-03-04
The operation will employ 1,000 people in a predominantly Black community. The move is part of the city's push to create job opportunities beyond the downtown area.

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2021-03-04
In remarks during CUNA’s online Governmental Affairs Conference, Vice Chairman Kyle Hauptman and board member Rodney Hood lambasted the lengthy process necessary for launching a new credit union.

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2021-03-04
Investors are worried that failure to extend relaxed bank capital rules might fuel Treasury bond selling; the heavily-shorted stock has been whipsawed in volatile trading this week.

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2021-03-03
The company would gain its first branches around Annapolis after it buys Severn in a deal valued at $146 million.

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2021-03-03
The agency issued a proposal moving the compliance date for the Qualified Mortgage rule revamp to October 2022.

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2021-03-03
As the Federal Reserve continues to explore issuing a digital U.S. dollar, the Biden administration and key congressional leaders are endorsing the idea as a way to expand banking access for underserved consumers.

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2021-03-03
Aspiration makes donations to a tree-planting charity based on debit card spending, buys carbon offsets for gas purchases and rates retailers' environmental records.

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2021-03-03
The industry quickly pivoted to remote work once the pandemic hit, but panelists who spoke during CUNA's online Governmental Affairs Conference predicted many institutions will utilize a mix of working from home and in the office once things retur

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2021-03-03
Biden and Corporate Distress Clouds Forming

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2021-03-03
The U.S. economy expanded modestly in the first two months of the year and sentiment among business owners is picking up as vaccinations bolstered the prospects for economic growth, the Federal Reserve said.

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2021-03-03
A new decision from the Fifth Circuit holds that implied consent cannot overcome a formal denial of consent to entry of a final judgment by a magistrate judge, even when the objecting party expressly consented.  PNC
2021-03-03
DMG Bancshares, formed by banking veteran Don Griffith, wants to buy more West Coast banks. For California First, the sale ends a four-year period in which it substantially shrank its loan book after it was ordered to shed leveraged loans.

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