Safety and Soundness Certification Certified Large Institution Examiner (CLIE) Candidates for the CLIE designation must provide evidence of the following: Expected to have skills and experience associated with CEIC level or equivalent. Senior examiner experience aligned with skills for large bank specialties considered on a case-by-case basis. Training should include large bank focused course, including training from FDIC, FRB, FFIEC

Statement from John W. Ryan, CSBS president and CEO, on striking down the OCC true lender rule: "State regulators support the CRA challenge to the OCC’s true lender rule, which if it stands, will eviscerate the power of state interest rate caps and deny state regulators their most effective tool to protect consumers from such predatory lending. We encourage members

Washington, D.C. – Community bankers are feeling slightly better about the health of their local economies but still far short of their pre-pandemic level of confidence, the most recent Community Bank Sentiment Index (CBSI) reveals. The Conference of State Bank Supervisors publicly released the third quarter results today, collecting data from 334 community banks across the nation during the month

Washington, D.C. – The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today announced Jim Payne, director of examinations and assistant deputy commissioner for the Consumer and Mortgage Lending Division of the Kansas Office of the State Bank Commissioner, will continue his service as the NMLS Ombudsman for a third term, starting July 1. The NMLS Ombudsman provides state regulators and industry

Washington, D.C. – Regulatory burden has risen to the top of community banker concerns, according to the 2024 Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) Annual Community Bank Survey, released today. Cost of funds, a chief concern last year, tied as a top external risk for surveyed bankers. This is the eleventh year CSBS has conducted the survey, which captures the

Washington, D.C. – In testimony today before the House Financial Services Committee, Arkansas Bank Commissioner Susannah Marshall warned that without collective action from Congress and the federal banking agencies, the nation will continue to lose community banks, threatening banking access for millions of Americans – especially those in rural and small-town communities. Marshall has served as Commissioner of the Arkansas

Just after midnight on Aug. 8, 2023, a brush fire began in central Maui. Within 24 hours, the fire had burned approximately 1,000 acres of land, destroying the town of Lahaina and displacing hundreds of families from their homes, jobs, and livelihoods. “The unique feature of this particular disaster was how many buildings were completely lost,” said Assistant Secretary for

Washington, D.C. – A paper on regulatory risk perception earned the John W. Ryan Award for Most Significant Contribution to Community Banking Research at the 2023 Community Banking Research Conference. The conference’s planning committee chose the paper titled “Regulatory Risk Perception and Small Business Lending,” authored by Siddharth Vij with the University of Georgia-Terry College of Business and Joseph Kalmenovitz

Washington, D.C.— Community bankers’ collective view of future business conditions and the economy plummeted in the last quarter, according to the Community Bank Sentiment Index (CBSI), released today. While the start of the year showed some concerns, the second-quarter 2022 CBSI dove to 84 points, down 13 points from the last quarter. The current value is its lowest level since