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Strangled! Texas Bank Fed Up, Quits
Main Street Bank, of Kingswood has had enough. They are fed up with all the added federal red tape and regulation. Chairman of the bank, Thomas Depping has said the bank will sell its four branches and rescind its banking charter. The company plans to reorganize in a way where they can continue to specialize in small business financing with the boot of federal regulators constantly on their neck.
“The No. 1 complaint that we hear from community bankers is that they feel that regulators have gone one step too far and are choking off lending,” says Paul Merski, chief economist at the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents small banks.
Regulators defend their efforts, saying that intensive oversight is needed to prevent banks from taking too much risk and repeating the behavior that got the industry in trouble.
Mr. Depping has been on a collision course with regulators since 2009, when FDIC examiners began questioning the bank’s large concentration of small-business loans. Nearly all of Main Street’s $175 million loan portfolio has gone to customers like dentists, owners of fast-food franchises and delivery-truck drivers, who use the loans to purchase equipment. The bank’s average loan size is $100,000 to customers who have less than $1 million in annual revenue, Mr. Depping says. – Robin Sidel, WSJ
This is just another example of the consequences of huge government and how it reacts and over-reacts. We keep hearing how hard it is for a small business to get an operating loan. Obama can lie all he wants to about focusing like a laser on jobs. The reality is much different. So different that even a casual observer might wonder about the real intent of Obama policy. What we see is a lot of damage and no jobs.
In other news, the DOW resumed it’s plunge today, off over 500 points. Looks to me that a lot of people are Fed up and giving up.
Obama: no jobs, no prosperity, no empathy and ready for the dust bin like his pals below.
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Filed under: PageTwo · Tags: Depression, FDIC, Federal Bank Regulators, Job Growth, Main Street Bank, Page Two, Red Tape, Top Stories
Instead, you like the no-doc cowboy atmosphere of the bubble. Why not? Bankers got rich, the rest of us got poor. Banks caused the problem, now they have to own the problem.
The recent round of regulatons ala Dodd Frank has nearly doubled the value of assets held by the top five banks in the nation. Too big to fail has become to bigger to fail.
Regulation is almost always designed to help the larger corporations out-compete smaller enterprises not by being better but by being better at paperwork. This is true whatever the industry.
Better to have 1,000,000 little banks than 10 large ones, yet that is where we are going. Regulations are doing it.
This bank in particular focused on lending to small business. Small Business creates jobs. How many jobs were just not created because Goldman Sachs was able to hurt it’s competitors by slipping something into the Dodd Frank Bill that finally caused this one to say enough?