Compliance officers hold the proverbial ball when it comes to managing regulatory compliance examinations. Those who have experienced consistent, positive outcomes typically attribute their success to the fact they have a plan they stick to, year after year, to ensure there are no surprises and to portray their organization in the best possible light. [Continue]
Heightened regulatory expectations around cybersecurity, pandemic planning and business continuity are driving IT matters from banks’ back rooms to their board rooms. In our day-to-day business, we interact with a lot of bank examiners — both assisting client banks across the United States and on our own behalf as a regulated technology service provider to financial institutions. [Continue]
The FDIC has launched a competition to create a next-generation data gathering system for the banks it supervises. Some two dozen companies are participating in the effort to create tools that will make data collection more comprehensive, more timely and less burdensome. FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams told the Wall Street Journal she’d like the system to be so robust that it eventually replaces the call report. [Continue]
Who were the intended PPP grant recipients? At first, it was any company with fewer than 500 employees but then companies with access to other sources of investment, particularly the capital markets, were deemed ineligible. As news about the program spread, some suggested that profitable companies shouldn’t be eligible for the money. [Continue]
Daniel Marcotte, veteran ombudsman for the FDIC’s Chicago region, and Brent Klanderud, recently appointed ombudsman for the FDIC’s Kansas City region, spent several days this spring visiting with industry professionals to explain how they advocate for bankers who might be dissatisfied with their examiner processes or the end result. [Continue]
Now is the time for the banking industry to unite behind an effort to level the playing field with credit unions. Consider what’s going on around the industry, and it is possible to perceive a “perfect storm” of factors that make now the right time. [Continue]
Kathleen Kraninger, the Trump-selected director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is emerging as a very intriguing public official. Criticized early on as inexperienced, Kraninger has turned out to be refreshingly selfless. Confirmed by the Senate last December on a straight-line party vote, Kraninger is attempting to take partisan politics out of the CFPB leadership job. [Continue]
It has been a slog for the industry to get to this point, and while the credits are appreciated, the environment was still better in the 1990s when many banks paid no premiums at all. But given how much things have changed in the last 25 years, the post-crisis premium structure seems appropriate. [Continue]
Can regulators reduce the regulatory burden for bankers without hurting industry safety and soundness or weakening consumer protections? Two FDIC chairs — one former, one current — shared comments that addressed that question during recent forums in Minneapolis. [Continue]
There has been a hole in the American financial regulatory system with its light- to no-touch regulatory environment for large nonbank financial institutions. A March proposal by a panel of regulators that nonbanks should be regulated only by their activities in business sectors could make that hole yet bigger. [Continue]