Oct 11, 2018
In the more than eight years since the Dodd-Frank Act passed, just 13 new U.S. banks have been chartered — and in some years, no new banks have been chartered at all. ABA Chairman Ken Burgess, who co-founded FirstCapital Bank of Texas as a de novo two decades ago, is concerned about these numbers.
While the number of de novos and applications in the pipeline have ticked up in recent months, the trend remains far below historical averages — and, as an ABA Data Bank post showed recently, the number of bank startups has diverged widely from its historic alignment with the overall business formation rate.
In this episode, Burgess discusses:
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