Alabama Bank News

by Brian Malcom, Waller It is finally over. No more robocalls. No more yard signs. No more poorly-produced television commercials. The midterms are behind us. A few results are still being counted, but the landscape is clear. Democrats will have a majority in the ...Read More

By Victoria E. Stephen The Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA for short, basically regulates the furnishing and collecting of credit information and imposes certain disclosure requirements in connection with accessing credit reports. The FCRA itself is a statute and only a few parts ...Read More

Question: I have a loan officer who issued a loan estimate that predates the application date by 1 day. While I don’t believe this to be best practice, I’m not certain whether it’s also a violation of regulation. Can someone please confirm? Answer: Assuming the required ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter, Waller The benefits of arbitration to frequent and experienced litigants are widely known. For example, discovery generally is more limited, the length of the entire proceeding typically is shorter, the information at the center of the dispute more easily remains ...Read More

by Nancy A. Bush, CFA, NAB Research, LLC for Banks Street Partners, LLC LIFTOFF – FINALLY? Was this finally it—the quarter which we had long awaited? Was this the quarter when the optimism that had been expressed for months by bank CEOs finally became ...Read More

By John Berteau, Associate General Counsel For banks, environmental risk management addresses concerns about the present by looking into the past and gazing into the future. A good environmental risk policy looks to the past to identify existing environmental liabilities before making loans secured ...Read More

By Kelly Flynn, John M.Floyd & Associates From Thanksgiving Day through Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2017, more than 174 million Americans shopped in stores and online, spending an average of $335 per person. They saved maybe $50 here or $100 there. And that’s great for ...Read More