Summer 2004 - Table of Contents

Letter from the Director

Articles

The FDIC’s Supervision of Industrial Loan Companies:
A Historical Perspective
By reviewing the FDIC’s experience with the industrial loan company charter, this article provides factual and historical context for policy discussions about how supervisors can protect insured entities that are part of larger organizations.

Compliance Examinations: A Change in Focus
The FDIC has revisited its approach to the compliance examination process. How has the examination paradigm shifted?

Federal Home Loan Bank Advances: A Supervisory Perspective
The results of an FDIC survey provide insights into how community banks are using Federal Home Loan Bank advances.

Assessing Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Risk
Banks in some metropolitan areas are increasing exposures to commercial real estate lending during a time of weak market fundamentals. To understand the level of portfolio risk, supervisors must "get behind the numbers." An FDIC pilot program in Atlanta did just that.

Regular Features

From the Examiner’s Desk
Enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act and changes in the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) have heightened the visibility of bank BSA compliance programs. How are bankers and examiners dealing with these changes?

Accounting News
In response to recent guidance from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, bankers and examiners must take a new approach to the accounting for purchased impaired loans beginning in 2005. This article explains how this new approach will affect the bank accounting function.

Regulatory and Supervisory Roundup
This feature provides an overview of recently released regulations and supervisory guidance.

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Donald E. Powell
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Michael J. Zamorski
Director, Division of Supervision
and Consumer Protection

George E. French
Executive Editor

Journal Executive Board
Donna J. Gambrell, Deputy Director
John M. Lane, Deputy Director
Sandra L. Thompson, Deputy Director
Ronald F. Bieker, Regional Director
John F. Carter, Regional Director
Nancy E. Hall, Regional Director
Scott M. Polakoff, Regional Director
Mark S. Schmidt, Regional Director
Christopher J. Spoth, Regional Director

Journal Staff
Kim E. Lowry
Managing Editor

John S. Wholeben
Financial Writer

James J. Willemsen
Financial Writer

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