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The National Bank Examiner: January 2015
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Saturday, January 24, 2015. All for One, One for All". Sadly, passing with scant notice by the banking industry media this month was an important 2015 news release. By the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The news release heralded the distribution of an OCC white paper titled: "An Opportunity for Community Banks: Working Together Collaboratively". In today's world of ...
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The National Bank Examiner
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Monday, November 26, 2012. OCC Matters Requiring Attention (MRA). MCBS MRA Reference Guide. Editor's Note: Some people have been experiencing trouble with this link. If you have difficulty accessing the document, please email editor@nationalbankexaminer.com and we will forward a .pdf copy]. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow us on Twitter! Banking.strategies@gmail.com,. Ameri...
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. A Gift for the New Year:. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber*. One December holiday season gift I always look forward to is the public release of the OCC Semiannual Risk Perspective. By the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg News,. So, occasionally...
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Thursday, July 2, 2015. The Sacrifice of Virtue. On May 20, 2015. For the purposes of discussion, let's set aside the accountability that comes from government law enforcement and the inevitable follow-on civil litigation (as being one thing) and focus on our own collective behavior as consumers of financial services (as being another thing). But surely, the virtuous members of both ...
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The National Bank Examiner: July 2014
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Monday, July 21, 2014. Is the Show About to Start? After seeing a significant drop in the headline unemployment rate over the last year to 6.1% (busting through Ben Bernanke's 6.5% reference point. Last week Fed Chairman Janet Yellen, in congressional testimony, uttered a phrase - a caution really - that should reverberate in the sanctums of bank Asset-Liability Committees (ALCOs) ac...
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The National Bank Examiner: June 2015
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Thursday, June 4, 2015. FinCEN's Financial Drone Strike. In front of that main entrance stood a solitary security guard, shooing off inquiring passers-by while allowing other building tenants through the door. Very few people came or went during the time I spent pondering and reflecting on this situation. Concurrently, the Bank of Spain also seized BPA's 100%-owned banking subsidiary...
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. G-SIB Failures: Either Way, You Pay. I have been reading the public responses. To the November 2014 Financial Stability Board (FSB) consultative document on "Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution". Think of the G-SIBs as the supertankers of global banking and their skippers, our Captains of Finance. Man...
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The National Bank Examiner
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Thursday, June 4, 2015. FinCEN's Financial Drone Strike. In front of that main entrance stood a solitary security guard, shooing off inquiring passers-by while allowing other building tenants through the door. Very few people came or went during the time I spent pondering and reflecting on this situation. Concurrently, the Bank of Spain also seized BPA's 100%-owned banking subsidiary...
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The National Bank Examiner
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The National Bank Examiner. Insights, analysis, and commentary examining issues affecting the financial services industry. Saturday, January 24, 2015. All for One, One for All". Sadly, passing with scant notice by the banking industry media this month was an important 2015 news release. By the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The news release heralded the distribution of an OCC white paper titled: "An Opportunity for Community Banks: Working Together Collaboratively". In today's world of ...