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It's About Interests, Stupid ? Not Positions

Posted on February 09, 2010
Another guest post by my Bank Business Advisors colleague John M. Walker, Jr. He's not happy. It?s time for those in Washington to take off their current, collective Chapeau de Derriere and get serious about solving the growing crisis among...

The Proletariat's Getting Peeved

Posted on February 08, 2010
When you think of New Mexico, I'll bet that the first word that does not pop into your mind is "grass" (unless it's some of that fine New Mexico Feathergrass). You'd better get used to it, because it appears that...

Memo To Arianna Huffington: It's The Capital, Not The Liabilities

Posted on February 07, 2010
I have an idea for Arianna Huffington. Over the holidays, the liberal blog-maven and media pundit took up a populist cause to have ordinary Jacks and Jills move their money from Big Bad Banks to community banks because, she says,...

Mama Like

Posted on February 04, 2010
I've only got time tonight for a quick post that brings to the attention of those two of you who might not have seen last Saturday night's "Saturday Night Live" skit with actor John Hamm spoofing Senators Scott Brown, Harry...

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More Charter Bank

Posted on February 03, 2010
A few more interesting aspects of the Charter Bank deal that got the OTS on Defcon 1 PR alert last week showed up late last week in New Mexico Business Weekly. The story shows that in many cases, the community...

Fannie and Freddie In Full Put-Back Mode

Posted on February 02, 2010
The country's largest commercial banks have become the largest originators of residential mortgage loans. Unfortunately for them, they're also becoming the recipients of knuckle massages lovingly administered by those "instruments of public policy," Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

And You Don't Even Own Clubs

Posted on February 01, 2010
Great news: "[T]op investment banks are now intending to hire one-third more graduates this year than last. Their remarkable resilience to the downturn, and this year's strong recovery in the financial markets, mean that opportunities still exist in banking for...

OTS "Corrects" Me on Charter

Posted on January 31, 2010
My post of last Monday caused some people to sit up and growl, including current and former OTS employees. Not only the OTS wrote me, but also a number of others, including a member of the Wertheim family, and a...

Bashing Bankers to Push Brew

Posted on January 28, 2010
Obama's recent bout of banker bashing didn't originate in the fertile minds of his brain trust. No, it's been a time honored tactic of brew sellers in the UK. Witness last year's Strongbow Beer ad where a chorus of workers...

Community Banks Must Be Invisible

Posted on January 27, 2010
Tonight's post is another guest post by one of my partners at Bank Business Advisors, LLC, John Walker. John's worked up about commercial real estate and its past, present and, most disconcerting, future effects on community banks. He's also not...

Sheila Bair Dispenses Good News and Bad

Posted on January 26, 2010
Ever the realist, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair expects 2010 to be a "banner" year for bank failures, much "better" than 2009, when a mere 140 banks bit the dust. From clients and consultants I've talked to, I think she's quite...

Charter Bank Takes A One-Way Trip Through The Looking Glass

Posted on January 25, 2010
Late Friday, the Office of Thrift Supervision shut down, and placed into FDIC receivership, the first bank to fail in New Mexico since 1999. Charter Bank was owned by a company controlled by the Wertheim family, admired philanthropists and supporters...

DAP: Please Just Die

Posted on January 24, 2010
Notwithstanding evidence that seller-funded downpayment assistance ("DAP" or SFDP") was demonstrably disastrous for the FHA (which is why Congress finally banned the practice), its proponents refuse to give up hope that the price-inflating, default-inducing DAP can rise from the grave...

The Silver Lining

Posted on January 21, 2010
President Obama's big bank bashing bonanza rolled on today with his announcement that he's going to crack down on the proprietary trading activities of "Big Banks" and otherwise pin their ears back. The major stock indexes went into a funk...

Treasury Claims It Took Big Banks To The Cleaners

Posted on January 20, 2010
One of the most popular games in Washington, D.C. these days is poking fingers in the eyes of big banks to show "The Peeps" what a populist can do to a rootless cosmopolitan capitalist oppressor of the working man (and...

The Myth of Charter Shopping

Posted on January 19, 2010
A couple of months ago, we highlighted Fin Reg 21's Darrell Delamaide's assertion that Chris Dodd's charge that we need a single federal bank regulator in order to prevent the kind of "charter shopping" that helped to cause the great...

Bank of America's Galveston Fish Story

Posted on January 18, 2010
I realize that whenever a bank (or any other business entity) is sued these days the standard public response is some variation of "the lawsuit is without merit and we intend to vigorously defend," but occasionally, you wonder why the...

We Want "Our" Money Back

Posted on January 14, 2010
President Obama today shook his fist in the faces of the top 50 domestic (including domestic subsidiaries of foreign banks) financial institutions and told them that "we want our money back." He didn't mean the TARP capital investments that those...

Big Banks Ready For One More Bashing By Obama

Posted on January 13, 2010
I was going to write about the FDIC's controversial proposal to base deposit insurance fees in part on executive compensation plans, but Jr. Deputy Accountant beat me to it. By the time I stopped laughing, I'd moved on to greener...

Leap First, Look Later

Posted on January 12, 2010
Tomorrow morning, our very own Truth Commission starts hearings into the causes of the financial crisis in which we wallow and how best to ensure that it all "never happens again." You might think that a deliberative body like the...

FDIC Churns Out Demand Letters

Posted on January 11, 2010
Last May, reports were circulating from "unnamed sources" within the FDIC that lawsuits against former officers and directors of failed banks by the FDIC were mere weeks away. I suppose "weeks away" meant 40 to 50 weeks away, and we...

The Lesson of Baltimore: Never Settle

Posted on January 10, 2010
A few weeks ago, we discussed doubts raised by federal district court judge J. Frederick Motz about the viability of a lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore against Wells Fargo, that alleged that Wells Fargo's predatory and discriminatory lending...

Chris Dodd: Man On A Mission?

Posted on January 07, 2010
Chris Dodd's pending retirement from the US Senate (and the leadership of the Senate Banking Committee) is causing some proponents of banking reform to begin singing (well, not full-throatedly, more like humming) the blues. Alain Sherter, a man who yearns...

These KIds And Their Crazy Internet Thing

Posted on January 06, 2010
Arianna Huffington's recent push to have the common folk move their deposits from big bad banks to little good ones has been the talk of community bankers for the past week or so. Huffington's not only smart and articulate, but...

Too Little, Too Late

Posted on January 05, 2010
Experts consulted by Atlanta Business Chronicle reporter J. Scott Trubey tell like it too often is: small banks often wait too long to deal with problem commercial loans and, by the time they do finally address the problem loans, they...

Bank Exams in 2010: Step Aboard The Pain Train

Posted on January 04, 2010
On the first working day of the new year, FinCri Advisor (free registration required) sets an ominous tone by opining that 2010 is likely to be the year of the "take-no-prisoners" bank examination. Look for much deeper and more critical...

I Heart (Community) Bankers

Posted on January 03, 2010
As hard as it may be to believe, Ariana Huffington has a new love interest: community bankers. Last week, she and Rob Johnson urged readers of Huffington Post to move their money from the evil clutches of too-big-to-fail bankers at...

TARP: Great Idea, Badly Executed

Posted on December 30, 2009
While I'm not a big fan of all of the year-end roundups that have been saturating the main stream media lately, I did get a kick out of a recent opinion piece in the Houston Business Journal, entitled "Roll up...

In The Bleak Midwinter

Posted on December 24, 2009
I'm traveling to visit family for the holidays and will be "off the air." Have a wonderful holiday week. Winter's Night --Thomas Merton When, in the dark, the frost cracks on the window The children awaken, and whisper. One says...

Who's Looking Out For The Little Guy?

Posted on December 22, 2009
President Obama has been jawboning the nations largest banks about doing more of that good old small business lending that will pull our economy up by its bootstraps and right out of the deep funk in which it currently wallows....

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