Recently added articles from Northwestern Financial Review:
Congress: Break the cycle
Oct 01, 2009; ... With the fall session of Congress well underway, community banks are caught in a very dangerous cycle; careful congressional actions are necessary to alleviate the situation. Examiners are increasingly requiring bankers to set aside ample earnings for projected future losses. Some ...
Succession Planning
Oct 01, 2009; ... Take time now to develop your successors A lifetime ago, in pre-crisis 2008, bankers cited succession planning and staff development as key concerns in the survey of community bankers we conduct each year. By January of this year those priorities understandably shifted to concerns about ...
Policy Recommendations
Oct 01, 2009; ... Making credit unions more responsive to communities The evidence illustrates that large credit unions do not serve people of modest means as well as mainstream banks, which must comply with the Community Reinvestment Act. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition of home ...
THE Silverton EFFECT
Oct 01, 2009; ... Regulators, recession test bankers' bank business model THE IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL crisis on the industry's bankers' banks is noticeably different from the financial crisis of the 1980s. While the fledgling bankers' bank initiative was barely on the regulatory radar screen during the ...
DIF impact of Midwestern bank failures tops $2 billion
Oct 01, 2009; ... The Office of Thrift Supervision closed the $7 billion Corus Bank, N. A., of Chicago on September 11. Chicago-based MB Financial Bank, N. A., agreed to pay the FDIC, which was named receiver, a premium of 0.2 percent to purchase Corus's deposits of approximately $7 billion. MB Financial Bank ...