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Lending: Banks Vent Rage Over Commercial RE Loan Rule: Worries abound the real estate market...

By Conrad, Lee
Publication: US Banker
Date: Thursday, June 1 2006

Banks, in an uproar over regulators' proposal that warns those with high concentrations of commercial real-estate loans may have to raise their capital reserves, worry that new regulations will eat into their bottom line.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve say there is no deadline by which they will make a decision on the rules; the official comment period ended in April. Also joining in the guidance was the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Specifically, regulators are concerned about "h

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