American Banker author profile, Greg Baer
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Greg Baer President and CEO, Bank Policy Institute Greg Baer is president and CEO of the Bank Policy Institute. Regulation and compliance It's time to do away with the obsolete currency transaction report Once a helpful tool for law enforcement, CTRs have become next to useless in the fight against money laundering. It's time to retire them in favor of more modern and effective measures. By Greg Baer and Gregg Rozansky January 27 Regulation and compliance The CFPB's 'open banking' rule is a solution in search of a problem Banks solved the issue of consumer data sharing years ago. Why is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepping in now, with a rule that could make sharing data less safe and secure? By Greg Baer November 20 Regulation and compliance Creating phantom assets to assess operational risk capital is madness Regulators are pushing a scheme that is completely out of touch with international regulatory norms. It would irreparably harm both consumers and the U.S. economy. By Greg Baer and Francisco Covas October 31 Regulation and compliance Russian oligarchs hide money in U.S. Only reliable data can stop them. The only way for Fincen to assure that banks have the tools to identify illicit shell companies is for the agency to verify the information in its new beneficial ownership database. By Greg Baer and Gary Kalman March 1 Regulation and compliance Big banks and regulators: Do more to close the racial wealth gap The country's largest banks should deepen partnerships with minority depository institutions and community development financial institutions, and regulators should facilitate that process. By Greg Baer and Nicole Elam September 21 Regulation and compliance Criticism of banking conference called 'untrue' and 'misleading' Leaders of the Bank Policy Institute and The Clearing House say their conferences are neither profit centers nor potential conflicts of interest for regulators in response to a recent BankThink piece that describes the meeting as an example of overly cozy relationships between banks and regulators. By Jim Aramanda and Greg Baer September 3 Community banking To serve communities, banks need the ability to grow Constraining consolidation will only hurt the goal of expanding consumers' access to banking services and credit. By Greg Baer June 14 A bank-merger moratorium isn’t just bad policy. It’s illegal. Some policymakers have been calling for a temporary halt to large bank deals while the criteria for approvals are reevaluated. Yet Congress was clear about its intention to stop regulators from holding up bank mergers, argues the head of a trade group for large financial services companies. By Greg Baer January 5 M&A White House review of bank M&A must consider nonbanks' emergence If Biden appointees are going to apply more antitrust scrutiny to bank mergers, they need to factor into their analysis the competitive threat that banks face from fintechs and other less-regulated players. By Greg Baer September 3 Enforcement It's a myth that regulators rubber-stamp bank M&A Critics of consolidation say the Federal Reserve and other agencies are too quick to greenlight bank deals. But the truth is banks face many hurdles to merger approval, and they don’t bother to apply — or take a hint and withdraw their applications — if they can’t clear them all. By Greg Baer August 20
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