BankThink

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week, including a proposal to regulate banks based on their activities rather than size and a plea for members of Congress to take action to help community banks.

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Disparate Impact Sticks Around: The Supreme Court backed the "disparate impact" legal theory yesterday in a decision that dashed the hopes of banks while buoying housing advocates and the Obama Administration. Justices came to a 5-4 decision affirming that plaintiffs can sue organizations under the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by alleging that their housing practices disproportionately impact minorities, even in the absence of proof of intentional discrimination. The New York Times...

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Regaining a Good Name ... Slowly: Americans trust banks more now than they did in 2012Â--but that's a pretty low bar to clear. Twenty-eight percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in banks, up from 21% the last time the survey was conducted three years ago, according to a June Gallup survey of 1,527 adults. While the American Bankers Association's blog appeared heartened by the improvement, other op-eds say...

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Which woman would KeyCorp's Beth Mooney or Citi's Suni Harford put on the new $10 bill? See the top picks from some of our favorite women in banking.