Washington, D.C. – The Conference of State Bank Supervisors encourages community banks to participate in its tenth Annual Community Bank Survey, open now through June 30.

This is an important opportunity for community banks to share their perspectives on community banking, the economy, regulation and supervision with state and federal policymakers. This year’s questions focus on current bank conditions and emerging issues, including inflation, product service design and offerings, banking expenses and the future of community banking.

The survey takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete, and responses may be entered during multiple sessions now through June 30. Participating community banks will need to provide their FDIC certificate number, but all information collected is for research purposes only and will not be linked to any institution.

Survey results will be released at the annual Community Banking Research Conference, sponsored by CSBS, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC. Last year’s survey of nearly 500 community banks showed that economic conditions and net interest margins rank as the top external risk while cybersecurity is the top internal risk for community banks.

For more on CSBS, go to www.csbs.org. 

Contact: Susanna Barnett, 202-407-7156, [email protected]  

Twitter: @CSBSNews 

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) is the national organization of bank regulators from all 50 states, American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. State regulators supervise roughly three-quarters of all U.S. banks and a variety of non-depository financial services. CSBS, on behalf of state regulators, also operates the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System to license and register non-depository financial service providers in the mortgage, money services businesses, consumer finance and debt industries.