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Automatic Stay Equals Stop Sign

01/15/2001

One of your loan customers has been in default for months. You have given all the proper notices and have been trying to locate your collateral, vending machines and other office equipment for over sixty days. A former employee has just informed you of the location of a warehouse which contains the equipment. You make arrangements with the owner of the building to pick up you collateral. Today the bank received notice of your customer's bankruptcy which was filed last week. You want to retrieve the equipment and hold it for the trustee. Is this action permitted under the Bankruptcy Code?

About Merchant Banking

01/15/2001

Am I the only one out here who doesn't know what this "merchant banking" thing is all about? I saw that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have issued a final rule on merchant banking activities of financial holding companies. [Click <a href="http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/BoardActs/2001/20010110/DEFAULT.HTM"><strong>here</strong></a> to access the press release and final rule.]

RESPA

01/01/2000

RESPA promises to be one of the looming nightmares of the immediate future. Put together with fair lending, RESPA enforcement concepts could severely restrict the mortgage business.

FDIC Installs Case Managers

07/01/1997

To improve communications between banks and the agency, the FDIC is establishing a case manager system.

Fair Lending Emerging Issues

12/01/1996

Managing a compliance program for fair lending has always been difficult because so much of fair lending turns on the fact situation and how it is viewed.

Tools, Tools, Tools

12/01/1996

If compliance specialists got a nickel for each time they answered a question on what loans are covered by which regulations or rules, we'd all be in a higher tax bracket.

Revisiting Disclosures of the Cost of Credit

03/01/1996

After more than a quarter century of disclosing the costs of credit, there is movement toward re-evaluating the methods used to disclose costs in the Truth in Lending and Real Estate Settlement Pro

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Any junk fees to worry about on the loan side?

04/21/2024

I keep hearing about junk fees everywhere. I work on the loan side, though, and it seems like everything is on the deposit side. Is there anything I need to be aware of for loan fees?

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