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Mar 03
2010
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Will inflexible bureaucrats drive off would-be bank investors?
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Category >> Jeff Gerrish on Community Banking
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Feb 16
2010
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Hint: The potential payoff to FDIC has a lot to do with it
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Jan 28
2010
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After approximately 35 years in this business, I have finally figured out how the regulatory agencies work.
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Jan 20
2010
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Community banks run on money and people, and you'd better not forget the people factor
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Jan 06
2010
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While major banks move their attractively priced capital offerings easily, community banks face a tough slog when FDIC repeats a longstanding mantra
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Dec 16
2009
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Let others sit back and wait for M&A to "return."
Astute bankers with capital can buy opportunities on the cheap right now.
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Dec 10
2009
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Recently I have been receiving many questions from community bankers that deal with their liability as bank directors and officers. Since my checkered past includes suing bank directors for the FDIC when their banks failed, defending directors since I left the FDIC 25 years ago, and, in all likelihood, serving as an expert witness for directors in the future, I suppose they picked me as a likely candidate to be able to respond.
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Dec 03
2009
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As most of you know, our firm has the opportunity to represent banks from Maine to Alaska. As a result, I am on the road close to 300 days a year (at least lately). One issue has jumped out at me recently, and that is the inconsistency of regulation, not just between the agencies, but between regions within the same agency. This primarily deals with troubled institutions.
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Nov 12
2009
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Since the beginning of time (at least since the beginning of FDIC enforcement actions over 30 years ago), FDIC has utilized an array of alternative enforcement actions. For informal, nonpublic matters, resolutions by the Board of Directors and memoranda of understanding have been the instruments of choice. For formal enforcement actions, until two weeks ago, when a major policy shift occurred, FDIC always utilized cease and desist orders—“C&Ds.”
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