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Preview of 2019 Regular Session

Breaking, Capitol Notes, Politics, Publications

March 5, 2019 — The first day of the 2019 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature began at noon today. But unlike in most years, the big question in Montgomery is when the session’s second day will start. While nothing will become official, if ...Read More

Compliance Q&A: Construction-to-permanent Loans and Loan Purpose

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Question: For HMDA purposes, would a construction-to-permanent loan be considered a refinance under the Loan Purpose? Answer: It would actually be considered a home purchase loan under HMDA regardless of whether it is a combined construction to permanent loan or the permanent financing that ...Read More

Compliance Q&A: HMDA and Interest-only Loans

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Question: I have a HMDA question about construction loans. Our construction loans are 360 months plus 9 months interest. They are construction to perm. The first 9 months are interest only and then the 10th month includes principal &interest. Would we report this on ...Read More

Compliance Q&A: Pre-approval of Loans Made by Executive Officers

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Question: Do loans made to executive officers have to be preapproved by the board? Answer: No, unless the general requirement to get preapproval applies (which generally includes extensions over $500,000), the loan must be reported to the board but does not require preapproval. This ...Read More

Vendor Risk Management: It’s More Than a Checklist

Board Briefs, Breaking, Industry Reports, Publications

by Terry Ammons, Porter Keadle Moore Risk management and cybersecurity are again top of mind for financial service providers heading into 2019. Recent data breaches at sizeable organizations have posed a significant question for these bankers: “Does our bank have the proper safeguards to ...Read More

Compliance Q&A: Small Business Loans & CRA Reporting

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Question: If we collect personal income from a Guarantor of a Small Business Loan, should we include this loan on our CRA Report and indicate it as a small business loans with gross revenue of less than $1 million if the personal income is ...Read More

Supreme Court Update for Banking and Financial Services Professionals

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by Charles W. Prueter Unanimous opinions in cases concerning relatively mundane matters generally are not the stuff of the nightly news. These are not the hot-button cases that capture the nation — one obvious and important exception is Brown v. Board of Education, in ...Read More

Virtual Currency Regulation: What Do Alabama Bankers Need to Know?

Board Briefs, Breaking, Publications

by Erica Barnes, Maynard Cooper & Gale The financial press cannot get enough of virtual currency, from Bitcoin to its thousands of more obscure cousins like Ethereum or Monero. Virtual currency is either a great invention or a total failure; the end of traditional ...Read More

Compliance Q&A: Notice of Servicing Transfers

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Question: Our bank is acquiring another bank, and once the acquisition is complete, we are going to change our name to the acquired’s name. The only thing changing from a servicing perspective is the name and address of the bank. Based on this information, ...Read More

Getting the Debtor’s Name Right on the UCC-1 is Important

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by Laurence Vinson, Bradley Alabama banks and other secured parties sometimes have difficulty completing the UCC-1 financing statement form in the manner provided by Article 9, “Secured Transactions,” of the Alabama Uniform Commercial Code with respect to debtors that are registered organizations, according to ...Read More

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