John Reosti is a reporter covering community banks in particular and the financial services industry in general. He also focuses on the Small Business Administration, the National Credit Union Administration Board and issues connected to the CECL accounting standard.
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A proposal on the agency’s overhead transfer rate would simplify how state- and federally chartered CUs pay for examinations by evenly splitting the costs of safety-and-soundness and insurance-related concerns.
By John ReostiJune 23 -
ES Bancshares, which recently sold a branch near Poughkeepsie, plans to open second branches in the two boroughs.
By John ReostiJune 23 -
Chemical Financial was caught off guard by CEO David Ramaker's decision to retire. Fortunately, Chemical had retained Talmer Bancorp CEO David Provost after buying his bank a year earlier.
By John Reosti and Jackie StewartJune 21 -
The CFPB and others believe alternative data could provide more credit to the unbanked. Small banks and credit unions, however, have lingering concerns about breaking from traditional underwriting.
By John ReostiJune 20 -
The CFPB and others believe alternative data could provide more credit to the unbanked. Small banks and credit unions, however, have lingering concerns about breaking from traditional underwriting.
By John ReostiJune 19 -
Casey Crawford, head of the rapidly growing Movement Mortgage, recently recapitalized First State Bank in Danville, Va., with his own money.
By John ReostiJune 14 -
Beacon Community Bank aims to become the first bank to open in Charleston, S.C., in a decade.
By John ReostiJune 8 -
BCB Bancorp will pay $20 million for Indus American Bank, a New Jersey institution that focuses on the South Asian-American business community. Indus American lost a total of $2.5 million in 2015 and 2016.
By John ReostiJune 8 -
The accounting board has scheduled a meeting that bankers hope will produce eleventh-hour modifications to reserving requirements.
By John ReostiJune 6 -
The trade group filed a brief backing an effort by the American Bankers Association to push back against the NCUA's planned revisions to field-of-membership regulation.
By John ReostiJune 6 -
The ICBA has filed a supporting brief to the American Banker's Association's FOM suit against NCUA, but a rapid decision is unlikely, and the case has already dragged on longer than the bankers' MBL suit.
By John ReostiJune 6 -
GrandSouth Bancorp's issues with floor-plan loans to car dealers serve as a reminder of another pitfall in auto lending besides consumer loans.
By John ReostiMay 31 -
The NCUA aims to give credit unions access to in-person hearings with its governing board. Such an opportunity is lacking at federal bank regulators.
By John ReostiMay 26 -
While CUs welcome the changes to the appeals process, the merger transparency rule is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
By John ReostiMay 25 -
The Treasury Department significantly raised an estimate for how much the exemption will cost the government over the next decade, giving bankers some hope that their complaints are finally being heard.
By John ReostiMay 24 -
The Treasury Department significantly raised an estimate for how much the exemption will cost the government over the next decade, putting credit unions on guard that bankers' arguments could be gaining traction.
By John ReostiMay 24 -
Union Bankshares is poised to become a nearly $12 billion-asset bank in a state that lost most of its midsize institutions in the 1990s and early 2000s.
By John ReostiMay 22 -
First Savings Financial in Indiana and Dime Community in New York are keen on making more SBA loans as a way to diversify revenue and generate fees through loan sales.
By John ReostiMay 19 -
Numerated Growth Technologies has a platform that lets banks make lending decisions in as little as five minutes. The spinoff will be run by Dan O'Malley, Eastern's former chief digital officer.
By John ReostiMay 17 -
Federal regulators are early in the process of deciding whether to broaden credit unions' access to capital markets, but banking lobbyists have seen enough to argue that it would let credit unions skirt business-lending limits.
By John ReostiMay 15

















