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
Government finance types have been in a mad scramble since March 2021 to answer the how, where and on what riddles to spending their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. As is well-known, the federal government’s response...more
Certain provisions of the CARES Act provided community banks breathing room while they worked to facilitate the badly needed economic recovery, including the following: - Temporarily reducing the Community Bank Leverage...more
Last week my partner Rob Klingler posted an impassioned plea to the SBA and bank regulators to allow banks with less than 500 employees to be borrowers under the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP as it has become known. Rob...more
The $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was enacted late last week. Designed to provide emergency economic assistance to businesses, families, and individuals, the CARES Act also...more
On March 27, 2020, Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to provide financial assistance to individuals and businesses, which in aggregate greatly exceeds the financial package...more
The COVID-19 related stimulus bill (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or CARES Act) provides relief to the banking industry directly. The CARES Act authorizes guarantees of bank-issued debt and...more