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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.
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.
CFO October 1, 2010 Randy Myers	The Calm Before Reform With sweeping new legislation on the horizon, companies (and their banks) try to gauge the impact.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan	Knee Deep in Regulation As part of the fallout from the latest financial crisis, bankers are wading through new layers of regulation while scanning for clearer skies ahead.
Bank Systems & Technology November 11, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Banking Groups React to Sen. Dodd's Draft Regulatory Legislation With a Big 'No' Although organizations approve of the Senate's efforts, they say it goes too far in undermining those aspects of financial services that actually work.
CFO August 1, 2012 Randy Myers	Unfinished Business Two years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law's implementation is far behind schedule, and its success is still in doubt.
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.
U.S. Banker January 2010 Rob Garver	No (More) Quarter...Perhaps The SEC says we've seen the last of the reprieves for small companies that have so far avoided complying with the 404(b) provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Community bankers best hope now is that Congress will step in and give them a permanent exemption.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010	Wavering Optimism in a Post-Reform World Just when bankers began to think it was safe to come back in the water, midsummer economic indicators began to pull the tide back out again, as demonstrated in the most recent quarterly results from Grant Thornton's 17th Bank Executive Survey.
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.
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Donna Borak	Dodd-Frank Reforms Inch Along In the first year after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, regulators made some progress implementing the law. Now they have essentially ground to a halt.
U.S. Banker August 2009 John Engen	How Banking Will Change A few years from now, just how much will the crisis have changed the environment banks compete in, and the way they go about their business?
U.S. Banker May 2010 Rob Garver	No Regulatory Relief in Sight Five new rules have taken effect since Jan. 1 and at least eight more are on the way. The onslaught is posing immense challenges for banks trying to keep up.
U.S. Banker January 2011 Joe Adler	Birth of a New Kind of Regulator To some, Elizabeth Warren's concept of a consumer protection regulator is an innovation. To others, it s an abomination. Either way, it's here to stay, and banking regulation will never be the same.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Anthony Malakian	An End to the Roadblocks? The Independent Community Bankers of America's official position is that it opposes the Obama administration's branching proposal, reasoning that states should be allowed to make their own laws regarding competition.
Bank Systems & Technology June 18, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	The Financial Industry Reacts to Obama Regulatory Proposal Although most agree with the general principles outlined in the President's financial reform plan, they find several sticking points -- and IT won't be immune.
U.S. Banker September 2009 Glen Fest	Closing Costs Community bankers understand the need for more transparency in mortgage loan disclosure requirements under Reg Z and RESPA. The problem, they say, is that disparate rules are costly and so confusing that they will delay settlements.
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Karen Weise	Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias.
U.S. Banker May 2010 Michael Sisk	An Uneasy Relationship Thanks to some high-profile community bank failures, small banks can t get loans from correspondent banks, threatening their own ability to lend.
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010	HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences?
Insurance & Technology July 16, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Financial Reform Law's Ultimate Impact on Insurance Remains Unclear While the Dodd-Frank bill, expected to be signed into law by President Obama next week, has spared insurers explicit duplicative regulation, the powers of the new Federal Insurance Office remain undefined.
U.S. Banker May 2009 Michael Sisk	The Repercussions of Reform After months of Congressional hearings, debates and some hysterics, only the broadest outlines of the new banking regulatory regime have emerged.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan	A Shot in the Arm The financial services industry needs a prescription for the mess that's been created because this is an industry that can't afford another crisis.
U.S. Banker December 2009 Glen Fest	CFPA: Exemption in Name Only? As details emerged on an amendment to exempt small banks from exams by the proposed consumer financial protection regulator, some have begun to question what exactly these second- and third-tier banks have won.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 James Sterngold	Let a Thousand Regulators Bloom As agencies begin rewiring Wall Street, job openings abound.
U.S. Banker March 2010 Alan Kline	Dysfunction in D.C. The sight of Democrats cheering and Republicans sitting on their hands when the president plugged financial reform was disheartening to anyone who believes the system needs fixing.
U.S. Banker November 2009 Kaper & Hopkins	Dodd's Power of Persuasion Facing long odds, the Banking Committee Chairman builds support for a plan to create a prudential regulator. But would a single agency kill the dual banking system?
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan	A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy.
Bank Technology News October 2010 Ramesh Menon	Building the CFPB A key provision of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act is the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, established as an autonomous part of the Federal Reserve and tasked with regulating financial products and safeguarding consumers.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau	Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed.
U.S. Banker September 2010	Noted & Noteworthy There's never been much love lost between the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, and the fierce debate over regulatory reform has only escalated tensions.
On Wall Street February 1, 2012 Joe Adler	Hill's Focus on Volcker Rule Just Starting The Volcker Rule is shaping up to be a case study of lawmakers continuing to sound off on an issue that is technically no longer under their purview.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 Eugene A. Ludwig	Discerning the New Financial Services Landscape The former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency and vice chairman of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, offers his views on what is likely to come out of upcoming reform legislation as well as areas that are far from clear.
U.S. Banker February 2011 Alan Kline	One Senator's Plan For Cutting Red Tape It's not getting much attention, but Virginia Sen. Mark Warner's proposal for easing the regulatory burden on U.S. businesses might be one of the most intriguing ideas coming out of Washington these days.
U.S. Banker November 2010 Rob Garver	Fat Around the Middle So much for the barbell theory. Once thought to be on the verge of extinction, midsize banks are poised for rapid growth in a post-Dodd-Frank world.
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Dougherty & Schmidt	Time's Nearly Up for Elizabeth Warren Obama is looking for other candidates to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Harvard law professor
U.S. Banker December 2010 Cheyenne Hopkins	Republican House To Shape Reform Though House Republicans are almost certain to be frustrated in trying to repeal provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, they are likely to have some success in using oversight powers to influence how the law is implemented.
On Wall Street June 1, 2012 Kevin Wack	13 Financial Regulation Questions For Romney Mitt Romney has participated in 23 debates and sat for scores of interviews since launching his campaign for president, but nearly a year later, he's still maddeningly vague about his views on financial policy.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer	Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill.
U.S. Banker January 2010	Noted and Noteworthy It looks like community bankers complaints about excessive regulatory burden haven t completely fallen on deaf ears.
U.S. Banker January 2011 Alan Kline	Common-Sense Ideas for Consumer Lending Even the smallest consumer loan requires almost as much documentation as a $250,000 business loan, and it's only going to get worse under Dodd-Frank.
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 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.
U.S. Banker May 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Plan Draws Lukewarm Response The Treasury Department's proposal to reorganize regulation of the financial-services marketplace drew mixed reviews.
U.S. Banker April 2009 Rebecca Sausner	Good Luck With That Outside the Beltway many bankers and industry players believe it matters less who gets anointed with the power to monitor systemic risk and more what tools can get the job done.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Glen Fest	Consumer Agency: Not So Scary? Bankers are almost uniformly opposed to the president's plan to create a new agency to regulate consumer financial products. But with so much political momentum behind the idea, it appears likely that bankers will eventually have to answer to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
U.S. Banker December 2010 Glen Fest	What Exemption? Many thought leaving out small banks from rate caps was unworkable. With no word yet from card networks on a 2011 plan, the carveout could already be moot.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2009 Francis & Coy	No Big Fix for Global Finance New regulations will be tepid - and will leave the global financial system, and taxpayers, at risk.
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.