ADVOCACY 1. Regulatory expectations for board responsibilities and corporate governance There continues to be a wide gap between bank regulatory expectations for bank boards and their legal ... Read More »

AABD has again asked the federal banking agencies to review regulatory guidance imposing management responsibilities and huge burdens on bank directors. These burdens distract directors from ... Read More »

Bank directors face many personal liability risks – much more than other corporate directors. That is why it is essential that they obtain as much protection ... Read More »

AABD’s recent review of state statutes identified Maryland as one state that has carved out a huge exception to the application of the exculpatory clause ... Read More »

Full Court Press on CRE Lending. All the federal banking agencies ended 2015 by joining the OCC in reinforcing the message that commercial real estate (CRE) ... Read More »

Bolstering its recent warnings concerning the easing of credit underwriting standards by national banks and federal savings associations, the Office of the Comptroller (OCC) released ... Read More »

Based upon the sad fact that banks and the banking industry are held in historically low esteem, and upon the assumption that failings in bank ... Read More »

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (St. Louis Fed) and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) recently released the results of their 2015 National Survey ... Read More »

The new committee is open to all in-house General Counsel and Corporate Secretaries of banks, savings institutions, and their parent companies.  Service on the Committee ... Read More »

The agencies’ decennial review of regulations that burden banks and their directors (due in 2016) so far omits numerous regulations that burden bank directors and ... Read More »