Supervisory Insights Journal Now Out: FDIC discusses Real Estate Valuation and Mobile Banking

The winter issue of the FDIC’s Supervisory Insights Journal is now available.   This quarterly journal has three articles. 

• The first article discusses supervisory expectations for prudent real estate appraisals and evaluations. 
• The second article discusses the risks and rewards of mobile banking, and strategies for dealing with these risks
• The third article contains a summary of recently released regulatory guidance.

The FDIC release discussing the Journal describes the first two articles as being of “critical interest” to examiners, bankers, and supervisors.  However, the FDIC also noted that the articles should not be viewed as “supervisory guidance.”

FDIC Announces December 1 Webcast of Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion

The FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion will meet on Thursday December 1, from 8:45AM to 3:45PM, to talk about new ways to deliver financial services – including mobile financial services and prepaid cards.  The meeting will be webcast live – the agenda and link to the webcast can be found here.  The FDIC’s full press release was issued today and is available online.