2019-01-01
Bank OZK's George Gleason, one of our community bankers to watch in 2019, needs to rein in the Arkansas bank's commercial real estate exposure to placate nervous investors.
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2019-01-01
Spirit Community Bank is the 15th bank to get the agency's approval this year. That list also includes Community Bank of the Carolinas, which was approved in early December.
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2019-01-01
A Colorado businessman's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the bank from using the name “Erica” has been denied. The overall case could still go to trial, but skeptical comments by the judge suggest BofA will likely prevail.
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2019-01-01
Bank technologists see the potential for AI in lending, money laundering detection, fraud and other areas. Regulators and bank executives insist on “explainability.”
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2019-01-01
No matter how far the Massachusetts Democrat goes in the next presidential race, the financial regulatory issues that she trumpets will be front and center.
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2018-12-31
The announcement rescinded the agency's earlier guidance issued to industry partners to suspend sales operations as a result of the current lapse in funding from Congress.
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2018-12-31
As banks begin to use artificial intelligence in their businesses, they’ll need to consider the potential for bias as well as the impact new technologies will have on workers.
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2018-12-31
The Massachusetts progressive said in a New Year's Eve email and video message to supporters that she’s launching an exploratory committee for a 2020 bid, which could give her an early edge in fundraising among several potential rivals for the Dem
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2018-12-31
The state has expanded the scope of ongoing legal actions against Avant and Marlette to include several securitization trusts and trustees.
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2018-12-31
“I was so drunk, I didn’t know what I was doing… can I still be found guilty?” The criminal defense lawyers at Young, Marr & Associates invite you to read on about the differences between voluntary intoxication and involuntary intoxication and
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2018-12-31
The year saw anxiety over how banks would respond to record consumer debt, disruptive glitches at TD Bank and SunTrust, ongoing scandal at Wells Fargo, and much, much more.
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2018-12-31
An effort to increase awareness of the transition to a new benchmark rate, and nudge banks to start preparing, is expected to intensify in 2019.
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2018-12-31
James McLemore, one of our community bankers to watch in 2019, has more energy loans to purge and must exit the Small Business Lending fund and a BSA-related enforcement action.
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2018-12-29
A state-backed bank would not be financially feasible because capital requirements would be too high and it likely wouldn’t return profits to the state for at least 30 years, consultants concluded.
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