The conference committee has announced the selection of “Who’s Holding the Bag? Regulatory Compliance Pressure and Bank Risk-Shifting” by Lamont Black of DePaul University and John Hackney of the University of South Carolina as the paper that made the “most significant contribution to banking policy” at the 2019 Community Banking in the 21st Century research and policy conference. more →

Funding and cybersecurity top the concerns for community banks, according to the latest annual community bank survey conducted by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). The survey was released Tuesday with the conference volume of the seventh annual Community Banking in the 21st Century research and policy conference. The conference, which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve System, CSBS and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., is hosted each fall at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. more →

Community bankers, academics, policymakers and bank supervisors from across the country will meet Tuesday and Wednesday at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for the seventh annual Community Banking in the 21st Century research and policy conference. The conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve System, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., features the latest in community banking research and will be webcast live throughout both days. more →

Lise Kruse, commissioner of the North Dakota Department of Financial Institutions, discusses the importance of community banking in her state. Her department not only oversees 68 state-chartered banks with total assets of $26 billion, it oversees the only state-owned bank in the nation, with assets of close to $7 billion. more →

Dave Hanson, president and CEO of American State Bank and Trust Company in Williston, North Dakota, discusses the bank's 113 years in the community and how it survived several oil and gas booms and busts over the decades. He also reflects on the bank's relationship with long-time customer Industrial Equipment, which began as a start-up in 1999 in the home of one of the three founders and which has experienced great commercial success in the oil and gas sector. more →

Federal Reserve System, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
October 1-2, 2019, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis read →

Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) read →

Zhonghua Wu , Zifeng Feng
Other ; Other read →

Taylor Begley and Kandarp Srinivasan
Washington University, St. Louis; Northeastern University read →

Sandra Chamberlain, Rajesh Vijayaraghavan and Yuxiang Zheng
University of British Columbia read →