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• Vol. 17 No. 16 Des Moines, Iowa August 1,1988 IBAA Special Committee Makes— • 4 Deposit Insurance Recommendations ETAINING the integrity of the FDIC and creation of a new Re R construction Finance Corporation ^ ^ 9 0 0 % # are two of the key areas covered in a special report submitted to the In dependent Bankers Association of America by its 18-member Commit tee on Deposit Insurance. IBAA President J.R. Nunn said the com mittee’s four principal recommenda tions were p resen ted to the Republican and Democratic plat form committees and to the FDIC. Mr. Nunn outlined the committee report in an address he gave at the Iowa Independent Bankers 17th an nual convention at Lake Okoboji on July 23. A summary of that talk follows: The insolvency of the FSLIC is no longer a subject talked about in whispers. It is discussed openly in the corridors of power and on the streets of our own communities: The fund’s problems are so serious and their ramifications so far-reaching that, as President of the Independent B ankers A ssociation of America, I appointed a special Com mittee on Deposit Insurance to make a comprehensive study of the issue and make recommendations to the Democratic and Republican Platform Committees and the FDIC. IBAA’s 18-member commit- tee met in June, and today I will report to you the committee’s four principal recommendations. Nothing is more fundamental to the safety of the financial industry than the profitability of its par ticipants. And nothing is more fun damental to the soundness of the financial system than the public’s confidence in the system. 1. The integrity of the FDIC must be maintained. The committee rein forced two of the resolutions adopted at IBAA’s 1988 convention in Hawaii concerning the stability of deposit insurance and the separate ness of the insurance funds. The solution to the FSLIC’s insolvency does not lie in raiding the FDIC. Merging a weakening fund with an insolvent fund would only further jeopardize the deposit insurance system. 2. The establishment of a new Re construction Finance Corporation. We propose financial assistance not only to financial institutions which can still be saved, but to close without delay insolvent thrifts and banks. Funding for this RFC would come from various sources, speci fically: • From a revised deposit in surance assessm ent base th a t should be expanded to include all liabilities of the insurance system. That means foreign deposits, and it means non-deposit liabilities. • From a supplemental premium that should be assessed on brokered deposits. • From a new risk-based pre mium that should be assessed on deposits over $ 100,000 for all in sured financial institutions. • From the diversion to the RFC of the current supplemental assess ment levied on thrifts. • From interest on reserves which the Federal Reserve should pay on depository institutions’ re quired reserves and send to the RFC. • From the taxation of credit unions at rates comparable to banks. • From the proceeds from the sale of the assets acquired from the failed thrifts and banks the RFC closes. • From a line on the T reasurydirect or indirect—as necessary. 3. A review of the deregulation policies of the Reagan administra tion. Since coming to power, the Reagan Administration has pursued a radical agenda of financial deregu lation—an agenda which puts free market thinking above safety and soundness. The high cost of that policy is now evident. The FSLIC insolvency flows directly from those deregulation policies and from the lax regulatory policies of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in the early After m ore than 120 years of providing correspondent banking services to the M idw est, you can say weVe had a chance to polish our trade. Find out for yourself. Count on Com m erce. 1 800 892-7100 1 800 821*2182 * * https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis * * (Outside Missouri) tu t Commerce Bank of Kansas City 2 and of the price to be paid for their inaction. For regardless of the cause of the crisis, its effect is clear and univer sal. Americans’ faith in the nation’s financial system has been strained. Congress must keep it from being1 broken. □ Norwest Bank Des Moines , N.A. ÊÊMLmm NORMEST BANKS Call (515) 245-3131 or toll-free (800) 362-2514 mmmmm mm yma Member FDIC Teamwork: one of the reasons we're first in Iowa. Dorothea Wolfe John Rigler years of the Reagan Administration. The Administration has not aban doned its cause. Indeed, it continues to promote an agency which looks toward the establishment of vast conglomerates with one foot in financial affairs and the other in commercial activities. Now, it may be useless for sheep to pass resolu tions against eating meat when the wolf is of a different opinion. But the next administration will be a new administration. And thè Congress and that incoming Administration must review the effect these policies have had on the safety and sound ness of our financial system and on consum ers’ confidence in th a t system. 4. Strenthening the Federal Finan Jerry Trudo MNB C orrespondent Banker together We Can Accomplish Great Things Call 319-368-4306 or toll free 1-800-332-5991 cial Institutions Examination Coun cil. The Federal Financial Institu tions Examination Council is made up of the five financial regulators. Congress created the Council in the late 1970s to improve communica tion between the agencies and to in crease uniformity among them. So far, so good. But so far is not far enough. The Council has no true power, no ability to force uniformity into a system mired in inequality. Congress needs to strengthen the Council to permit the setting and en forcement of uniform regulatory standards to address the Bank Board’s failure to regulate in such areas as accounting, capital and len ding standards and reporting re quirements. And the five-agency Council should be expanded to in clude the Farm Credit Administra tion, whose own government bailout became necessary because of lax supervision and regulation. Consis tent regulatory standards and im proved regulatory coordination are essential if fairness is to override politics. The need for action is as evident as the problem itself. You’ve heard the old expression that a chain is on ly as strong as its weakest link. O ur challenge as com m unity bankers is to do what we can to strengthen our link and thereby hand down a stronger chain to the next generation. And we must re mind Congress and the new ad ministration of its responsibility Correction on Expedited Funds Availability Chart The American Bankers Associa tion has informed us that an ABA typing error appeared in its chart published in the last issue of the W eekly N ew sletter. Under the category, “Deposits Made by Mail/ Night Depository,” both local and nonlocal maximum holds were listed as 2 days. ABA says this should have been 1 day, stating that “Funds from all deposited checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury must be available on the next business day, regardless of how they were deposited by the customer (i.e., teller deposit, ATM deposit, or by mail [once the bank receives the deposit]).” Iowa News Patrick R. Moehn, president and CEO, Commercial Savings Bank in Carroll, was elected president of the Iowa Independent Bankers at the 17th annual I IB convention at The New Inn, Lake Okoboji, July 23. He succeeds Thomas H. Huston, presi dent, Columbus Junction State Bank, Columbus Junction. The I IB vice president for 1988-89 will be Oliver Hansen, chairman, Liberty Trust & Savings Bank in Durant. Elected to three-year terms on the IIB board were: Richard Buenneke, president and CEO, Citizens Bank & Trust Co., N.A., Belle Plaine; Cecil W. Dunn, president, Security Sav ings Bank, Eagle Grove; Howard K. Hall, president, Perry State Bank, Perry; Robert M. Sierk, president, I t's easier to talk Iowa banking with people w ho live it — people like Donald H. Jordahl and the cor respondent staff at Bankers Trust. Call 1-800-362-1688 or 515/245-2424. Strength Eastern |owa Donald H. Jordahl Merchants National Bank Si Rapids. 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He joined Norwest in 1959 and has held positions in The Iowa Bankers Association Dawson, Minneapolis and Virginia, will sponsor a seminar entitled “In Minn, and Denison, la. troduction to the Ever Changing In dividual Retirement Account,” at South Dakota News three locations during August. The ABERDEEN: First Bank System program is being presented by Col has named Charles Habhab to vice lin W. Fritz and Associates and is president and trust officer in the geared for bankers who are relative trust services division of First Bank ly unfamiliar with IRAs. Agenda is: 8:30 am., registration; 9:00, program of South Dakota, Aberdeen. He begins; 12:00 p.m., lunch; 1:00, after previously served as an account ex noon session; 4:30, adjournment. ecutive with E.F. 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