Washington, D.C. – Five student teams advanced to the finals this week in the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition, emerging from a second round of eleven teams. This is the tenth year of the competition, which is open to undergraduate students in all fields of study as an opportunity to gain valuable first-hand knowledge of the banking industry
St. Louis – A paper on regulatory risk perception earned the John W. Ryan Award for Most Significant Contribution to 2024 Community Banking Research at the Community Banking Research Conference. The Community Banking Research Conference, co-sponsored by CSBS, the Federal Reserve System, and the FDIC, is held annually in St. Louis. The conference's planning committee chose the paper titled "
Washington, D.C. – The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), partnering with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Bankers Electronic Crimes Task Force (BECTF), today issued an updated self-assessment tool to help nonbank financial institutions assess their efforts to mitigate risks associated with ransomware and identify security gaps. The updated Nonbank Ransomware Self-Assessment Tool (R-SAT), originally released in 2020
The FDIC’s proposed corporate governance guidelines for certain state-chartered banks are so fatally flawed that they should be withdrawn, state financial regulators argue.
Washington, D.C. - State financial regulators voiced support for rescinding the FDIC’s current bank merger policy statement and suggested reforms that would modernize and improve the M&A framework in a letter sent today from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). To enable growth and the long-term stability of community banks and the broader financial system, bank merger policy should
A map of state authority to supervise payday lenders. Describes whether payday lending is legal, relevant law, whether a license is required, and more.
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The Honorable Jeb Hensarling Chairman House Financial Services Committee 2129 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Hensarling: On behalf of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) 1, I am writing to express state regulators’ opposition to H.R. 6743, the “Consumer Information Notification Requirement Act.” This bill would preempt state data breach notification laws and undermine state
Washington, D.C. – State-chartered banks were the primary distributor of relief funds to communities, according to a new data analysis by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). The analysis matched recently available loan-level Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data with lender demographic data, providing the first estimate of how different types of lenders originated PPP loans for small businesses. “This