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Marketplace lenders and other alternative finance companiesshould be perceived not as a threat, but rather as a group of pioneers opening up opportunities for those banks that elect to buy, build or partner in this market.

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Dodd-Frank's Good and Bad Sides: Monday's stock market meltdown offered up a case study in how Dodd-Frank has helped banks and how it's hurt banks. The market madness also cast serious doubt on the Fed's plans to raise interest rates next month.

On the positive side for Dodd-Frank, banks have been forced to build up their defenses because of the law and they should be much better equipped to weather the storm of...

Since the time of my last post, Alan D. Halperin, the Trustee of the FBI Wind Down, Inc. Liquidating Trust has filed 93 more preference complaints.  Because the Debtor filed for bankruptcy on September 9, 2013, the Trustee has only two more weeks to file any additional preference complaints.

While we cannot be certain that these are the final preference complaints that will be filed in this case, the clock is ticking.

Prior posts about FBI:

Some large U.S. banks are likely to be impacted by recent volatility in emerging markets like Brazil and China. But their opaque risk metrics make it difficult for investors to judge banks' level of exposure.