Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What is FedNow and its Role in the U.S. Payments System?
Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
Convenience vs. Compliance: Behavior-Driven Marketing of Credit Products
Selling Your Mission to Shareholders
On February 17, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman delivered prepared remarks, during a conference in Arizona, addressing monetary policy, the economic outlook, and regulatory issues affecting community banks. She discussed the...more
It is no secret that the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the OCC have zeroed in on banks' use of third parties for products, services, and other operations, the risks those arrangements may pose, and banks' responsibility to...more
In this Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is seeking feedback on principles for climate-related financial risk management for large banks; the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is seeking...more
Federal banking regulators have again demonstrated their focus on bank oversight and management of risk from third party relationships through a series of guidance and proposed guidance published in the third quarter of 2021....more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) withdrew its proposal to delay the Debt Collection Final Rules; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance...more
Innovation is a key to competitive advantage and keeping pace with consumer digital banking preferences. Increasingly, banks are engaging the services of fintech’s who can deliver certain information and services in a more...more
In March, I dialed into the first ever “conference call only” meeting of a 14 year old community bank. The main office of the bank is located in Philadelphia and there was growing concern about the rapidly increasing number...more
Host Jonathan Hightower is joined by Ken Achenbach to discuss this week's proposed guidance from the Federal Reserve on the effectiveness of bank boards. In addition, at the outset of the episode Jonathan and Ken reviewed...more
In December 2016, Thomas Curry, the Comptroller of the Currency, stated that cybersecurity was the single greatest systemic threat to our financial system. He was not being hyperbolic. Cybersecurity should be on...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has long considered a community bank’s board of directors as one of the most important elements in the successful operation of a bank. Nearly thirty years ago, the FDIC issued its...more