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Bizarro Land Inside The Beltway

Posted on December 07, 2010
The ethics investigation into Maxine Waters' activities on behalf of a savings bank in which her husband had an ownership interest has gone off the rails, through the looking glass, and into a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight,...

Overbearing Overdraft Guidnace

Posted on December 06, 2010
Never one to pull a punch when a haymaker to the chin is available, IBC CEO Camden Fine recently expressed the frustration of many community bankers over the recent FDIC Final Guidance on Overdraft Payment Programs. One thing that appears...

False Hope

Posted on December 05, 2010
American Banker editor at lareg Barbara Rehm wrote an article last week (paid subscription required) that contained an opening paragpraph that might lead someone who is grasping at straws one more thin reed at which to claw. In a sign...

The Home Stretch

Posted on December 01, 2010
Yesterday, WilmerHale put out one of those short client alerts that doesn't bore bankers with its excruciating in-depth analysis of some esoteric nuance of Dodd-Frank. Instead, it basically points out to bankers who've been living in caves or strung out...

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WikiLeaks' Waterloo?

Posted on November 30, 2010
While big-time bloviator and full-time loose canon Bill O'Reilly (supported by ordained minister Mike Huckabee) demands the death of the WikiLeaks leaker, and sneers at the more restrained response by the Obama administration, Fox News' news-fox Megyn Kelly, a lawyer,...

PE and Bank Acquisitions: On The Outside Looking In?

Posted on November 29, 2010
In today's American Banker (paid subscription required), Alexandrs Rozen conducts an extensive interview with Blackstone's CEO, Hamilton James, on a wide range of topics. However, the snippet that most interested me was James' revelation that Blackstone and other private equity...

Happy Bird Day

Posted on November 23, 2010
This turkey of a blog is off for the rest of the week while its author commits several of the Seven Deadly Sins. Regardless of whether you eat your turkey left-handed or right-handed, have a Happy Thanksgiving. And to those...

Dodd-Frank: The Lobbyist's Mescaline

Posted on November 22, 2010
The ether was wearing off. The acid was long gone. But the mescaline was running strong. Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting. Then about halfway through the second hour, you start cursing the creep who...

Ending Not With A Bang But With A Whimper

Posted on November 21, 2010
Two years ago, the banking, business, and legal trade papers and blogs were abuzz with the merits of the claims made by Citigroup against Wells Fargo and Wachovia over the machinations of those organizations and the FDIC in the sale...

Unfair and Unbalanced

Posted on November 19, 2010
To those readers who write to berate and/or mock me for my occasional typographical errors, I raise in my feeble defense the following: (1) I must squeeze in most of these posts at the end of a work day spent...

Bair and Bowman: Bookends

Posted on November 18, 2010
Sheila Bair got warm and fuzzy with American Banker editor Barbara Rhem (paid subscription required) in discussing what she wants to accomplish during the end game of her stellar five-year term as head of the FDIC. No, surprisingly, she doesn't...

Haste Makes Waste

Posted on November 17, 2010
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? -- Pete Seeger Last week's Washington Post article on the tussel between the FDIC and J.P. Morgan Chase over which entity assumed or retained WAMU's liabilities to investors in mortgage-backed...

Tremulous Transition

Posted on November 16, 2010
An unnamed source provided Housing Wire last week with further confirmation on how rocky the road to merger is between the OTS and the OCC. According to this source, "It's pretty rocky." Nevertheless, the OCC's deputy comptroller for compliance policy,...

Bank of America Foreclosure Reversed

Posted on November 15, 2010
It appears that Manny Pacquiao isn't the only Filipino who's beating up much larger opponents these days. According to Filipino news site ABS/CBNnews.com, a "73-year-old Filipino woman made history when she became the first person in California to win her...

Round Two of a Fight That Will Last for Years

Posted on November 14, 2010
I read two interesting perspectives on the recent lawsuit filed by the FDIC against former officers and directors of the failed Heritage Community Bank of Glenwood, Illinois. You're going to need to pay to read either of them, however. Bank...

Odds and Ends

Posted on November 10, 2010
Tomorrow's a bank holiday and because of that I expect traffic to be light for the rest of the week. For those who do stop by over the next couple of days, however, I provide the following "quick hits" to...

Beating Up Barney A Bad Idea?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Barney-baiting newspaper The Boston Herald has been running stories since last week's Republican takeover of the House that Republicans are eager to put Barney Frank's head on a platter, using his alleged interference with attempts to "reform" Fannie Mae and...

It's Time To Come To Grips With Social Media Governance

Posted on November 08, 2010
Let's see if I can complete a post that no one will request be taken down for at least 24 hours... As if the daily news wasn?t enough to drive a ?normal? person to reach for the Zoloft or the...

Life In The Trenches

Posted on November 07, 2010
The Colorado Bankers Association (via Larry Martin) requested that I take down today's post. Apparently, they're worried that it might upset some bank regulators. Although I can't imagine there's any response a banker would make these days that the regulators...

Bachus Breaks A Sweat Over Volcker

Posted on November 04, 2010
Spencer Bachus is expected to become chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in January, replacing one of our favorite punching bags, Barney Frank. If today's press reports are correct, and Rep. Bachus is serious about the perceived threat of...

Strange and Dangerous Times

Posted on November 03, 2010
According to Dallas Morning News business columnist Cheryl Hall, Monday afternoon's Great Investors' Best Ideas Investment Symposium in Dallas presented a rare opportunity for some of Wall Street's masters of the universe to get a taste of what many Texans...

Something's Happening Here; What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear

Posted on November 02, 2010
Pepper Hamilton LLP recently issued a client alert that discusses the effect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on industrial banks, credit card banks, and trust banks. These "bank holding company loophole banks," especially industrial banks,...

RDC: A Contrary View

Posted on November 01, 2010
A couple of years ago, I took David Peterson to task for saying that there was "zero risk" in remote deposit capture technology. Well, "take to task" is a bit mild. Actually, I was a snarky little snot who suggested...

One Big Happy Family

Posted on October 31, 2010
Bailout beneficiary Citigroup got a boost from its largest shareholder--the US Treasury Department--when Treasury recently voted its 27% ownership interest (the largest single shareholder block) to affirm the reappointment of KPMG as Citi's auditor. That makes it 41 years in...

All Parties Agree: Mark Twain Was Right

Posted on October 28, 2010
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --- Mark Twain Holy Cow! Stop The Presses! At a time when the comments section to a National Public Radio "human intesrest"...

We Earn Money The Old-Fashioned Way: We Steal It

Posted on October 27, 2010
I'm not sure whether to be comforted or discouraged by the news that Interthink's Quarterly Fraud Risk Review Index shows that while mortgage fraud remains "substantially unchanged" last quarter when compared to the second quarter of this year (and is...

Take A Load Off Fannie

Posted on October 26, 2010
Some lenders have taken to complaining that Uncle Freddie's and Aunt Fannie's penchant for loan buy-back demands has had a chilling effect on the ability of the average homeowner to take advantage of historically low interest rates by refinancing higher...

Lawyers: Social Media Killers?

Posted on October 25, 2010
One of the sessions I attended at last week's BAI Retail Delivery conference in Las Vegas was entitled "Using Social Media to Understand Your Brand," and was given by Brad Smallwood, the Director of Pricing and Analytics for Facebook, and...

Bank Back From The Brink By Making Nice

Posted on October 24, 2010
A year ago, Sterling Savings Bank of Spokane, Washington was in dire straights. According to a recent Bank Safety and Soundness Reporter article (paid subscription required), in October 2009, it was hit "with a harsh 11-page Cease and Desist order,...

Parting Shot

Posted on October 17, 2010
I'm at the BAI Retail Delivery conference this week, so blogging for this week will be sverely curtailed. However, I wanted to make sure you didn't miss the in-depth post by Kevin Sullivan at Anti-Money Laundering Training Academy blog for...

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