by Michelle Mosser | May 31, 2022 | Commercial Banking, Mortgage Loans, National, News, Sidebar Blog
(Above) Mauise Ricard III’s four-bedroom colonial in a suburb of Atlanta. Photographer: Aboubacar Kante/Bloomberg Bloomberg, By Shawn Donnan, Ann Choi, Hannah Levitt and Christopher Cannon | March 10, 2022 Fewer than half of Black applicants were approved by the...
by Michelle Mosser | Mar 17, 2022 | Commercial Banking, Mortgage Loans, News
(Photo by Mike Mozart/ CC by 2.0) Also, formerly redlined neighborhoods are hotter, and New Yorkers experiencing homelessness fear for their safety NEXT CITY, by Roshan Abraham, March 17, 2022 Wells Fargo Denied More Than Half of Refinancing Applications From...
by Michelle Mosser | Feb 10, 2022 | California, Commercial Banking, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking, The Unbanked
The Seattle Times, By Elaine S. Povich | stateline.org December 19, 2021 Unlike commercial banks, the mission of public banks would be to invest in public priorities such as affordable housing, small business loans or infrastructure projects. Most could offer...
by Michelle Mosser | Aug 30, 2021 | Commercial Banking, COVID-19, News
It’s a Wonderful Life, in which the local banker George Bailey (played by James Stewart, left) is the hero © AA Film Archive By Brendan Greeley, Financial Times | August 28, 2021 Darryl Jorgenson steps into his cherry-red Ford pick-up truck and apologises for...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 5, 2021 | Commercial Banking, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News
Photo by htmvalerio (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Mike Gallagher, Albuquerque Journal | July 1, 2021 The state of New Mexico filed a class action lawsuit against some of the largest financial institutions in the country alleging a 15-year pattern of manipulating the market for...
by Michelle Mosser | Jun 21, 2021 | Commercial Banking, National, News
Image by flyerwerk from Pixabay By Samantha Masunaga & Jackeline Luna, Los Angeles Times | June 19, 2021 Sylvia Adetona has deposited checks at the same financial institution for more than 25 years. That doesn’t mean she trusts banks. Over the decades, the...