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Industry Bancshares got into a deep hole after rising interest rates tanked the value of its sizable bond portfolio. Now the Texas community bank is expecting a $195 million capital infusion and taking steps to start relying more on revenue from loans.

The Ames-based Ames National Corp. has watched its profits shrink over the past two years amid increased funding costs and stiff competition for deposits.

A coalition of financial industry groups is calling on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to provide more data and extend the comment period on proposed brokered deposit restrictions, warning the changes could disrupt banking practices and harm consumers.

New standards forwarded by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission bolster auditor responsibilities and introduce enhanced technology use, impacting over 350 publicly traded banks.

"Fed watchers will be parsing Powell's comments for signs that a 50bp rate cut is on the table for September," noted Lauren Saidel-Baker, an economist with ITR Economics. "However, the notoriously tight-lipped chair is unlikely to confirm this, making a 25bp cut the most likely outcome."

A representative of America's Credit Unions takes issue with a recent article suggesting that credit union commercial lending is excessively risky.

The North Carolina-based bank doubled in size in 2022 and again last year, when it acquired the failed Silicon Valley Bank. It has used consistency to outperform peers.

Mehrsa Baradaran's new book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America" ties together economic history, an expertise in banking regulation and the perspective of someone who's both watched a country be torn apart by extremism and been inside the American political machine.

Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr says generative AI could present financial-stability risks if certain models are used ubiquitously.

The industry-led legal challenge to new anti-redlining rules is opposed by some banks and consumer protection groups, who say the changes are necessary.