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16 Feb 2012, 10:29 am by James Hamilton
For example, then-FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said that if all derivatives market making activities were moved outside of bank holding companies, most of the activity would no doubt continue, but in less-regulated and more highly leveraged venues.HR 1838 ensures derivatives trading units can be overseen by financial regulators and increases the capital available to finance job creation and economic activity.Rep. [read post]
5 May 2010, 11:38 am by admin
Second runner-up: Dear Sheila, You really know how to stir up a colleague’s vacation… ~ John Reich, former director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, in an August 6, 2008 email to FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, as FDIC pressured OTS to take more forceful enforcement action against the troubled Washington Mutual Bank. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 7:47 pm by Kevin Funnell
Newly appointed Colorado Banking Commissioner Steve Strunk has spent over 36 years being an actual banker, which is about 36 more years of banking experience than that possessed by--oh--say--Sheila Bair, for example. [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 8:29 pm
Those other lenders don't give a rip what Sheila Bair, or any other regulator who has no power over them, has to say. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 7:43 am by admin
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair also predicted that the deposit insurance fund would be back in positive territory by the end of the current quarter (June 30). [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 10:06 pm by Jennings Strouss & Salmon
Robert Novak The New York Post ran a banking story earlier today that featured an interview with Jennings, Strouss & Salmon attorney Robert Novak. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 7:23 am by gstasiewicz
” FDIC Board Meeting Minutes from approval of Bank of America bailout (January 15, 2009): According to the meeting minutes, Sheila Bair, Chairman of the Board of the FDIC, admitted the agency “was relying on data analysis by the Federal Reserve” and for that reason the FDIC “very much needs to proceed with a systemic risk determination with respect to [Bank of America]. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 12:52 pm
As rumors swirl that BofA and Citibank (which would leave just one do-everthing bank left in the US: JPMorgan, depending on how you feel about Wells Fargo) are both headed for conservatorship (here is Sheila Bair's denial, and it's the FDIC who would have to do it), one wonders if the recent request for the second tranche of the TARP led people to believe that the government was contemplating big and bold new bailout moves. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 3:22 am
Well, that just goes to show you that good things happen to bad people.More good news came the way of our favorite bank regulator, Sheila ("Bear") Bair. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 7:48 am by Jay Fishman
The LLP inquired whether, and contended that, large manufacturers, commodity trading firms, utilities, government agencies and municipalities would fall within the statutory exemption's "other financial institutions or institutional buyers" category because of the entities' large securities portfolios and sophisticated investment activities, further advocating that restricting institutional buyers to the statutory exemption's banks, savings institutions, trusts,… [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 11:27 am
The National Journal reports that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., (FDIC) has accused the banking and mortgage-lending industries of studied incompetence, saying that the nation's biggest mortgage-servicing companies helped turn the housing bust into a full-blown foreclosure crisis, "The biggest adversary has been inertia in the servicing and foreclosure practices applied to problem loans," Sheila Bair head of the FDIC said. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 2:59 pm
FDIC Chair Sheila Bair gave an interesting speech, in which she called for a requirement that financial institutions maintain a reserve fund to be used to assist in their unwinding in the untimely event of their financial demise. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 7:36 pm by Kevin Funnell
”-- Sheila Bair, May 29, 2009A thoughtful piece by Randall Smith and Robin Seidel in last week's The Wall Street Journal entitled "Banks Keep Failing, No End in Sight" finally made the front section of today's The Dallas Morning News retitled "Broke-bank Mountain. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 7:25 pm
" The FinCriAdvisor post contains additional grim statistics and warnings by Sheila Bair, Mason, and others that confirm what those of us in the trenches have been seeing for some time now: CRE problems are bad and they're going to get worse, especially for community banks. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 8:21 pm
In her testimony before the House Banking Committee last Thursday, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair listed some "misconceptions" about the subprime mortgage loan restructuring program she's been pushing (converting 2/28 and 3/27 ARMs into 28- or 27-year fixed rate loans using the teaser rate). [read post]
22 Mar 2009, 7:37 pm
Eddie Bernice Johnson is pushing forward with a bill to extend the coverage of the Community Reinvestment Act to non-banks, such as credit unions and non-bank mortgage lenders. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 7:24 pm by Kevin Funnell
Politics, academia, and large bureaucracies give one the kind of hands-on experience that leads to the type of omniscient insight that...oh...say...Sheila Bair has about the business of commercial banking. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 7:41 pm
Sheila Bair and others give us a clue as to what might "induce" an unwilling bank to sell.When asked if regulators might push bankers to accept a price offered through the auction process, Bair responded that it would be a "consultative process with supervisors. [read post]
31 May 2012, 10:37 am by Elan Mendel
Participants in the roundtable include former FDIC Chairman Sheila Blair, Barclays Plc Managing Director Keith Bailey and Credit Suisse Managing Director Peter Antico, as well as advocates for a stronger rule such as MIT professor Simon Johnson. [read post]