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☆ How a criminal record affects your chances of being hired
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In fact, for many if not most jobs, there are no legal prohibitions on hiring those with criminal records. And when a criminal record of any kind turns up, that can kill a person’s chances, regardless of how well-qualified they may be for a position, either because an employer has a high aversion to risk or a bias against those with a record, Love said. Or the paperwork and time required to get approval for someone with a criminal record may be such that an employer simply decides to look at candidates without a record. “Sometimes people believe they are required to turn my clients down because of a criminal conviction. That law provides for eligible conviction records to be automatically “sealed,” meaning they should no longer show up on employer background checks.

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☆ Regulators hit Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America over living will plans
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Banking regulators on Friday disclosed that they found weaknesses in the resolution plans of four of the eight largest American lenders. The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said that the so-called living wills — plans for unwinding huge institutions in the event of distress or failure — of Citigroup , JPMorgan Chase , Goldman Sachs and Bank of America filed in 2023 were inadequate. Regulators found fault with the way each of the banks planned to unwind their massive derivatives portfolios. The living wills are a key regulatory exercise mandated in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. "We are fully committed to addressing the issues identified by our regulators," New York-based Citigroup said in a statement.

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☆ Investors may be looking at commercial real estate risk all wrong and missing these opportunities
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Christina Cheddar Berk | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The threat from a looming wave of maturing commercial real estate loans has been well telegraphed to investors, but it's possible the metrics they are using to protect themselves from risk are flawed. Many investors have been avoiding bank stocks with high concentrations of commercial real estate (CRE) exposure. Investors have been punishing regional bank stocks, especially when the bank's commercial real estate exposure tops more than 300% of its total equity . While the latter two have some exposure to New York City real estate, both banks benefit from strong management teams, he said. (New York real estate markets are navigating both falling office values as well as the dynamics of rent-regulated multifamily properties.)

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☆ "Safety first will not grow the economy" says Pension Insurance Corporation CEO
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email"Safety first will not grow the economy" says Pension Insurance Corporation CEOTracy Blackwell, CEO of the Pension Insurance Corporation and winner of the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award 2024, discusses pension investing and the need to change the culture of risk-taking in the investment world.

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☆ Former Bank Bailout Watchdog Is Choice to Lead F.D.I.C.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Christy Goldsmith Romero, a lawyer who spent more than a decade rooting out fraud and other bad behavior at banks that received federal aid in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has been chosen to be the next leader of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the White House announced on Thursday. Her pick is the first step in President Biden’s quest to quickly replace the current chair, Martin Gruenberg, the bank regulator’s longtime leader who said last month that he would resign in response to reports of vast workplace abuse and harassment at the agency. If the Senate Banking Committee acts quickly to hold a hearing and a vote on Ms. Goldsmith Romero’s candidacy, she has a chance of assuming the role before the presidential election in November. In a statement emailed to reporters, the committee’s chairman, Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, said Ms. Goldsmith Romero “would bring to the F.D.I.C. decades of financial services experience, including valuable experience.”“She has proven herself to be a strong, independent and fair regulator who is not afraid to do what’s right,” he said.

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☆ CNBC's Inside India newsletter: IPO boom looks to break new records
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | In Amala-Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The spotlight has seemingly shifted in the past year toward companies going to market, hoping to ride on the coattails of India's growth story. Growing foreign listingsThe allure of India's stock markets has trickled to companies beyond its shores — with foreign entities eyeing a share of its growth. Such listings add strength to India's markets, says M&G Investment's Asian Equities Portfolio Manager Vikas Pershad. The optimism on India's IPO boom is sometimes marred by concerns over elevated valuations of its stock market — and whether it is headed toward a bubble. "When we look at India, we see continued economic and earnings per share growth and higher levels of profitability," Dorson from Global X told CNBC's Inside India.

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☆ Biden to nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero as FDIC chair after abrupt departure of predecessor
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Christy Goldsmith Romero, commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) speaks during the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Greunberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. A longtime financial regulator, Goldsmith Romero is currently a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the nation's financial derivatives regulator, and previously worked with the Department of Treasury. Her previous nominations to the nation's financial regulators were unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Gruenberg's resignation would not be official until Goldsmith Romero nomination is finalized.

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☆ Biden nominates Christy Goldsmith Romero to lead FDIC at pivotal time for the banking regulator
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —President Joe Biden has nominated Christy Goldsmith Romero as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Goldsmith Romero, a Democrat, served as special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program at the Treasury Department that was borne out of the Great Recession. As incoming head of the FDIC, she will largely be viewed as the figure responsible for fixing the longstanding problematic culture at the agency. An independent investigation commissioned by the FDIC released in early May confirmed the Wall Street Journal’s reporting from last year. Gruenberg’s exitUnder pressure from the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Gruenberg announced he would vacate the position once a new chair is confirmed.

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☆ White House to nominate Goldsmith Romero soon, aiming for July hearing, says Reuters source
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The White House will nominate markets regulator Christy Goldsmith Romero as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair imminently as it targets the week of July 8 for her first hearing, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The White House will nominate markets regulator Christy Goldsmith Romero as Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair imminently as it targets the week of July 8 for her first hearing, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The White House declined comment. She had been lined up for the Treasury role before Gruenberg succumbed last month to political pressure to resign. Punchbowl News earlier on Wednesday reported that the White House would announce Romero's nomination on Thursday.

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☆ Sallie Mae hikes yield on 1-year CDs as Fed stays in rate policy holding pattern
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Last week, Sallie Mae boosted the annual percentage yield for its 12-month CD by 10 basis points, or 0.10% week over week, to 5.15%. Certificate of deposit rates have come a long way since the Fed started raising interest rates in March 2022. The average online bank APY has gone up by 4.14 percentage points to 4.79% since then, Wells Fargo analyst Michael Kaye said in a note Friday. Since banks generally follow the fed funds rate, interest rates on CDs and savings accounts are expected to fall in turn. "Broadly we still expect online bank deposit rates to decline," BTIG's Caintic said.

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☆ Biden Nears Pick for Next F.D.I.C. Chair
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Three weeks after President Biden vowed to pick a new leader for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the bank regulator shaken by a vast workplace abuse scandal, a front-runner has emerged: Christy Goldsmith Romero, who sits on the five-member Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to two people with knowledge of the administration’s thinking. Ms. Goldsmith Romero is a lawyer who, after the financial crisis, spent more than 12 years in an office created by Congress to investigate fraud and other misconduct by banks that received money from the government’s roughly $450 billion crisis rescue package, the Troubled Asset Relief Program. From 2011 to 2022, Ms. Goldsmith Romero led the office as the special inspector-general for the program. Mr. Biden has not made a final decision. Ms. Goldsmith Romero’s position as the front-runner for the job was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

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☆ Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85 million of customer savings is missing in fintech meltdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThere is an $85 million shortfall between what partner banks of fintech middleman Synapse are holding and what depositors are owed, according to the court-appointed trustee in the Synapse bankruptcy. Customers of fintech firms that used Synapse to link up with banks had $265 million in balances. But the banks themselves only had $180 million associated with those accounts, trustee Jelena McWilliams said in a report filed late Thursday. The missing funds explain what is at the heart of the worst meltdown in the U.S. fintech sector since its emergence in the years after the 2008 financial crisis. She said Synapse apparently commingled funds among several institutions, using multiple banks to serve the same companies.

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☆ Higher interest rates have created 63 'problem banks' and $517 billion in unrealized losses, FDIC says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

High interest rates continue to put pressure on the US banking system. The FDIC said the US banking system has 63 "problem banks" and is sitting on $517 billion in unrealized losses. AdvertisementMore than a year after the downfall of Silicon Valley Bank, higher interest rates are still putting pressure on the US banking system. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's first quarter report, the US banking system is sitting on a collective $517 billion in unrealized losses and has 63 "problem banks." Those losses have been sparked primarily by a surge in interest rates over the past two years, which have driven down the price of fixed-income securities held by banks.

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☆ It’s hurricane season. Good luck getting affordable homeowners’ insurance
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

For decades, homeowners insurance was considered a very stable line of business for insurance companies, said Chuck Nyce, a professor of risk management and insurance at Florida State University. The US homeowners insurance industry saw net losses jump to $101.29 billion in 2023, according to the report. Only two of the 20 largest US homeowners’ insurance companies were profitable last year. Kaylee Greenlee Beal/ReutersWhile property insurance is not mandated by law, most lenders require it for mortgage holders. Last year, Florida’s state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. became the 10th largest homeowners’ insurer in the US, S&P Global said.

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☆ Savings app CEO says 85,000 accounts locked in fintech meltdown: ‘We never imagined a scenario like this’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Hugh Son | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Instead, his company has inadvertently been a source of deep pain for thousands of customers who relied on Yotta accounts to receive paychecks, pay bills and save for emergencies. For the past three weeks, 85,000 Yotta customers with a combined $112 million in savings have been locked out of their accounts, Moelis told CNBC. Accounts at crypto firm Juno and at Copper, which offered savings accounts for families and teens, also have been frozen. Adam Moelis, Co-Founder at Yotta Savings. Representatives of the agencies have pointed to efforts they've made to encourage banks to manage the risks of using fintech partners.

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☆ FDIC did not report allegations of senior officials' misconduct 'in a timely manner,' watchdog says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. failed to report allegations of senior officials' misconduct in a timely manner, according to a new memo from the agency's internal watchdog. The Office of Inspector General "learned of several allegations of misconduct regarding senior FDIC officials that were not reported to the OIG in a timely manner," said the letter, dated Thursday. "The OIG is now reviewing these allegations to determine how they should be incorporated into OIG work plans." A scathing independent report published in April found a widespread culture of harassment and discrimination at the FDIC, citing allegations from more than 500 FDIC employees. "The FDIC has failed to provide a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct," the report concluded.

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☆ FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg to resign following investigations into sexual harassment at the bank regulator
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The report also probed FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg's strong temper. Staying in office would prevent FDIC vice chairman Travis Hill, a Republican, from becoming the agency's acting chairman. The White House said that President Joe Biden would soon nominate a new FDIC chairman and that it expects the Senate to move quickly to confirm the nominee. "I accept the findings of the reports and as chairman, I take full responsibility to anyone who has experienced sexual harassment, discrimination or other misconduct at the FDIC," Gruenberg said at the hearing. Investigators said they set up a hotline in mid-January and received more than 500 complaints — largely from current employees — about sexual harassment, discrimination, and other issues.

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☆ Jamie Dimon is worried about how much the US is borrowing. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Major business leaders and economists are worried about America’s growing debt problem. Last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon expressed fear that a crisis is looming and that unchecked deficit spending could explode. The big picture: Between the Trump-era tax cuts and Covid-era stimulus programs, the national debt has exploded in recent years. Trump Media (DJT) reported a loss of $327.6 million during the first three months of the year, compared with a loss of $210,300 a year earlier. The company generated just $770,500 of revenue, marking the second-straight quarter where its revenue totaled less than $1 million.

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☆ Bank Regulator Overseeing ‘Toxic’ Culture Loses Key Supporter in Senate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He called for Mr. Biden to nominate a successor and for the Senate to quickly confirm that person, who could then take over for Mr. Gruenberg. “There must be fundamental changes at the F.D.I.C.,” Mr. Brown said. “Those changes begin with new leadership, who must fix the agency’s toxic culture and put the women and men who work there — and their mission — first.”An F.D.I.C. spokesman declined to comment. Since then, Mr. Gruenberg has faced some calls to resign from members of both political parties who said they felt he had played too big a role in shaping the agency’s culture in recent years, including by making the agency’s staff fear communicating with him.

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☆ Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown calls for new FDIC leadership after misconduct report
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, on Monday called on President Joe Biden to replace Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg after allegations of widespread sexual harassment and misconduct within the agency. There "must be fundamental changes at the FDIC," Brown, who chairs the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, said in a statement. With his statement, Brown broke from fellow Democrats, who have largely condemned the allegations but refrained from pushing for Gruenberg's resignation, instead calling for him to drive changes at the agency. Law firm Cleary Gottlieb in April released a scathing report detailing an alleged culture of "sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct" at the FDIC. In one instance, Gruenberg allegedly screamed profanities at employees after they delivered bad news, the report said.

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☆ Democrats Batter Bank Regulator Over F.D.I.C.’s ‘Toxic’ Workplace Culture
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Martin Gruenberg is still the leader of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, an agency that supervises U.S. banks, but after a bipartisan grilling on Wednesday by members of a House committee overseeing bank regulators, he appeared to be hanging on by a thread. Democrats expressed dismay over his responses to the crisis at his agency, after a scathing report of a culture of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination. One congresswoman appeared to call for him to resign, as Republicans have been doing for months. “Personally, I do not have confidence that you can continue to lead in this role,” Representative Ayanna S. Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, told Mr. Gruenberg during an exchange. (Two other federal bank regulators, the acting comptroller of the currency, Michael Hsu, and the Federal Reserve vice chair, Michael Barr, also offered testimony on bank regulatory matters, but much of the committee’s focus was on the F.D.I.C.)

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☆ Under Fire for ‘Toxic’ Work Culture, Bank Regulator Apologizes Again
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Emily Flitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just days after the release of a scathing report detailing a culture of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, its chair, Martin Gruenberg submitted congressional testimony on Tuesday that indicated he had no plans to step down. “I accept the findings of the report and, as chairman, I take full responsibility,” he said. The hearings come as Mr. Gruenberg, a Democrat, faces calls from Republican lawmakers to resign. He has so far survived those demands with the backing of the White House and key Democratic lawmakers like Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Representative Maxine Waters of California. Should Mr. Gruenberg be pressured to depart the agency after the hearings, that could also put into jeopardy a rule that the agency is proposing along with other federal bank regulators, to tighten and expand oversight of the nation’s largest lenders, but which has been fiercely opposed by big banks.

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☆ The Chair of the FDIC is facing calls to resign after scathing report. The implications for banks could be significant
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Martin Gruenberg, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is facing a barrage of calls from lawmakers to resign after a scathing 234-page report released Tuesday detailed pervasive sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying at the agency. If he heeds the calls, there could be significant ramifications for banks across the country. “We do recognize that, as a number of FDIC employees put it in talking about Chairman Gruenberg, culture ‘starts at the top,’” the report said. Gruenberg’s temperament “may hinder his ability to establish trust and confidence in leading meaningful culture change,” the report added. Aside from Democratic Rep. Bill Foster, Democrats have stopped short of calling on Gruenberg to resign.

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☆ The FDIC is a 'boys club' where some senior execs pursued romantic relationships with their staff, says new report
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Meghan Morris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, has a "patriarchal" culture, according to an independent report. The bank regulator took no action on dozens of harassment complaints and moved wrongdoers around. The report said the FDIC has dismissed myriad harassment complaints and that wrongdoers are moved around internally or promoted. AdvertisementThe independent investigators spent nine pages discussing FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg's conduct. The FDIC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside standard hours.

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☆ U.S. probe finds widespread sexual misconduct at FDIC
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must make sweeping changes to address widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct, according to an independent report released on Tuesday that raises questions about the future of the banking regulator's leadership. The report, prompted by a Wall Street Journal investigation, cited accounts from more than 500 people, including some who alleged FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg had engaged in bullying and verbal abuse. "For far too many employees and for far too long, the FDIC has failed to provide a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct," said the report, adding that those accused of misconduct were frequently reassigned new roles. "Chair Gruenberg must accept responsibility and must immediately work to make fundamental changes to the agency and its culture." Some employees described Gruenberg as "harsh" and "aggressive", as well as prone to losing his temper, the report said.

Persons: Martin Gruenberg, Cleary Gottlieb, Gruenberg, Patrick McHenry, Sherrod Brown Organizations: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Wall Street Journal, FDIC, WSJ, Democrat, Republican, Financial Services, Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs Committee

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