Washington, D.C. - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today named a student team from the University of Tennessee at Martin as the winner of the 2025 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition. Teams from the University of Arkansas and Illinois State University placed second and third, respectively. “Competition was tight, but the University of Tennessee at Martin team

Washington, D.C. – The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today is inviting technology firms and other vendors to develop proofs of concept that could modernize how bank regulators receive and analyze financial data from banks. Part of CSBS’s Catalyst Initiative, this innovation challenge is focused on making bank financial data reporting less costly, simpler, and more timely than the

Washington, D.C. – The Community Banking Research Conference planning committee has named three graduate students as the 2025 Community Banking Research Conference Emerging Scholars. The scholars are: Gene Kang from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Anthony Waikel from the University of Georgia, and Ruinan Liu from McMaster University. The Community Banking Research Conference, co-sponsored by CSBS, the

Along with all my colleagues at CSBS, I want to express my sincere appreciation to Jon Scott, Emeritus Professor of Finance at Temple University, for his exceptional contributions to CSBS the past seven years. Jon recently retired from Temple and is completing a one-year term as a member of CSBS’s Economic Research and Policy Scholars. Jon’s deep expertise in business

Link to video of Chair Powell's pre-recorded remarks: https://youtu.be/s-cKJhfLo2Y Good morning, and welcome to the 10th annual Community Banking Research Conference. I have attended this conference twice before, including the first one back in 2013, and I can attest to the quality of the research and discussions. While I am coming to you virtually today, many of you are gathering

Governor Michelle W Bowman At the 2022 Community Banking Research Conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri Good morning and thank you, Jim, it's great to be back here in St. Louis for this year's research conference. While the Federal Reserve learned a lot about how

Good afternoon, I very much appreciate the opportunity to speak at this 10 th Community Banking Research Conference. The FDIC is pleased to co-sponsor this event with the Federal Reserve System and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. I would like to thank the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and their outstanding administrative and technical teams for hosting the

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and state financial regulators, collectively the agencies, recognize the serious impact of Hurricanes Fiona and Ian on the customers and operations of many financial institutions and will provide appropriate regulatory assistance to affected

The Community Banking Research Conference research committee is pleased to announce the selection of “Bank Loan Markups and Adverse Selection” as the paper chosen for the "John W. Ryan Award for Most Significant Contribution to Community Banking Research" as part of the 2022 Community Banking Research Conference. The authors of the winning paper are: Mehdi Beyhaghi, Federal Reserve Bank of