http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sitemason Content Management System http://www.sitemason.com/ http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/rss 15 This week, President Obama installed former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau without Senate approval by using a questionable recess appointment. Republican senators, who had vowed to block the confirmation of any CFPB director unless the bureau's structure and funding are changed, have been holding pro forma sessions to prevent such an appointment. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2012/01/06/obama-installs-cordray-as-cfpb-head-agency-launches-nonbank-supervision-program-from-aba-daily-newsbytes.280627 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2012/01/06/obama-installs-cordray-as-cfpb-head-agency-launches-nonbank-supervision-program-from-aba-daily-newsbytes.280627 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:49:00 CST Recent Headlines Today's Nashville Business Journal reports that bank lending grew faster than it has in three years, increasing at an annual rate of almost 10 percent in the third quarter, according to data from the US Federal Reserve. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/business-loan-growth-highest-in-3-years.255390 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/business-loan-growth-highest-in-3-years.255390 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:47:00 CST Recent Headlines The Senate Banking Committee today is scheduled to vote on Thomas Hoenig's nomination to become FDIC vice chairman, according to ABA's Daily Newsbytes. Hoenig, the former president and CEO of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank and a frequent critic of Fed policies, was nominated by the Obama administration in October. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/senate-panel-to-vote-today-on-hoenigs-fdic-nomination.255389 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/senate-panel-to-vote-today-on-hoenigs-fdic-nomination.255389 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:46:00 CST Recent Headlines Taxpayers have made more than $13 billion in profit so far from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program through repayments, dividends, interest, and other income from banks, the agency said yesterday in its monthly TARP report. "As of today, taxpayers have recovered over $258 billion from TARP's bank programs ... over $13 billion more than the $245 billion invested in banks," the report said. 
 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/taxpayers-gain-13-billion-from-bank-tarp-programs.255388 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/12/13/taxpayers-gain-13-billion-from-bank-tarp-programs.255388 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:44:00 CST Recent Headlines While a bill (H.R. 1723) designed to stop regulators from assigning "nonaccrual" status to performing amortizing loans has worthy goals, ABA cannot support it, the association said yesterday in a memo to the House Financial Institutions Subcommittee. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/15/aba-explains-opposition-to-nonaccrual-bill.239035 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/15/aba-explains-opposition-to-nonaccrual-bill.239035 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:55:00 CST Recent Headlines The ABA Education Foundation is sponsoring a free, financial education solutions webinar at 3:00 pm EST on November 16. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/10/aba-education-foundation-sponsors-free-financial-education-solutions-webinar.236887 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/10/aba-education-foundation-sponsors-free-financial-education-solutions-webinar.236887 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:34:00 CST Recent Headlines Simplifying checking account disclosures -- as Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) urged last week -- would be a valuable but challenging task, ABA EVP Wayne Abernathy said on Friday. http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/07/aba-responds-to-call-for-simpler-account-disclosures.234606 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/07/aba-responds-to-call-for-simpler-account-disclosures.234606 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:06:00 CST Recent Headlines The House yesterday passed by a 420-2 vote an ABA-backed bill (H.R. 1965) that would raise the current 500-shareholder threshold for Securities and Exchange Commission registration to 2,000 for banks and bank holding companies... http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/house-passes-aba-backed-sec-registration-relief-bill.233698 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/house-passes-aba-backed-sec-registration-relief-bill.233698 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:27:00 CDT Recent Headlines Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) yesterday withdrew his ABA-backed amendment to a fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/sen-crapo-withdraws-derivatives-amendment-democrats-agree-to-address-concerns.233697 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/sen-crapo-withdraws-derivatives-amendment-democrats-agree-to-address-concerns.233697 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:22:00 CDT Recent Headlines ABA and its ABA Securities Association affiliate yesterday urged all Senate members to support Sen. Mike Crapo's (R-Idaho) amendment to a fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill... http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/aba-abasa-urge-support-for-crapo-derivatives-amendment.233684 http://www.tnbankers.org/press/headlines/2011/11/04/aba-abasa-urge-support-for-crapo-derivatives-amendment.233684 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:54:00 CDT Recent Headlines