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Article: Letting off steam on regulatory pressure cooker. (chief executive officers respond to banking regulations) (Chief Executives, At Work and Play)
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- August 17, 1992
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These are strange days, indeed, for the chief executives of America's banks.
"We are being bashed, on the one hand, for not loaning sufficiently to stimulate a recovery," said Curt Bradbury, chairman and chief executive officer of Worthen Banking Corp., Little Rock, Ark.
"On the other hand, the trend of regulation is to crush the banks with burden, to make it virtually impossible to lend into the recovery," he added.
Other chief executive officers at the nation's biggest banks agree.
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