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Senate Democrats & Republicans alike have assigned new lawmakers to the Senate Banking Committee with Republican Senators David Perdue (GA), Thom Tillis (NC), John Kennedy (LA) and Democratic Senators Brian Schatz (HI), Chris Van Hollen (MD), and Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) have joined the panel for the 115th Congress. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer (NY) will depart to focus on his responsibilities as Senate minority leader.
This recent Next City article clearly articulates the value-proposition of community development banks, as financial institutions that take on a triple-bottom line approach, "providing social justice and environmental well-being at the same time as being financially sustainable." CDBA Member Beneficial State Bank is highlighted in the work they have done to attract customers who are focused on aligning their vision for an ethical economy with their personal finances.
Highlighting local coverage of Central Bank of Kansas City's seventh award under the New Market Tax Credit Program. To date they have allocated $251 million in credits on community development projects that support business growth and job creation.
The Treasury Department has significantly reduced its stake in Broadway Financial Corporation, the Banking Holding Company (BHC) of CDBA Member, Broadway Federal Bank in Los Angeles. The $413 million-asset bank recently disclosed in a regulatory filing that the Treasury sold about 4.7 million shares of its common stock, which reduced the Treasury's stake from 47.4% of total voting shares down to 29.3%.
This opinion piece focuses on the potential threats to CDFI Fund appropriations with proposed domestic discretionary spending cuts on the table in the 115th Congress and advocates for strong and coordinated action from the CDFI Industry as a whole to ensure the continuity of the funding stream.
Watch the video here.
CDBA Members are consistently on the cutting edge of new opportunities to maximize and publish the social impact that they are having in local communities across the country. Therefore it is fitting that City First Bank & Southern Bancorp are two of the first institutional members to join Mighty, a new platform that will help "small but powerful" banks to connect with potential depositors or investors, especially among the Millennial demographic, who are seeking a bank that makes a positive social impact.
The federal banking agencies recently issued final rules that permanently extend the on-site exam cycle from 12 months to 18 months for banks with up to $1 billion in assets, effective immediately. The rules are identical to interim final rules issued earlier this year.
One of the most important concepts to come out of the Promontory Network is the idea of reciprocal deposits, which allows the network to chop up a large deposits and distribute the funds among many small banks, stay within the government maximum and keeping the entire deposit on the books of the original bank. The FDIC's new 2016 rule that allows this category of deposits to now be considered under the definition of "core deposits" has lowered the cost of insuring these deposits for many small community banking institutions.
Deborah Wright, chairman and former CEO of Carver Federal Savings Bank, will join Citigroup's board on January 1, 2017. Wright's appointment to Citigroup's board extends the ties between the two landmark New York financial institutions. "Deborah led Carver Bank through the economic crisis that severely impacted community banks and it went on to earn a reputation as one of the most successful African-American led banking institutions in the country," Citi Chairman Michael O'Neil issued in a statement on Friday.