The End of Community Banking

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Author(s) Sarah Wallace
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date June 29, 2010
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703964104575334611037072320.html
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Quotes-start.png "In order to comply with the volumes of new regulation—and small banks are required to comply with the same consumer regulations that apply to the Wall Street banks—we will need to have a proportionately higher number of employees working day after day to interpret and implement all the new federal rules. This in itself, because of the sheer volume, has the potential to destroy community banking. Large banks have entire departments devoted to regulation compliance on a full-time basis; we have one employee, like most institutions our size." Quotes-end.png


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