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First and last? Much has been made of the fact that Geithner specifically avoided getting input from the financial sector before announcing his plan to fix the nation's ailing banks. Indeed, representatives of the American Bankers Association and the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, which lobby for large banks and Wall Street firms, respectively, say they have yet to have sit-downs with Geithner. A number of industry insiders say Geithner's early-February policy speech, which got a poor reception, would have gone better and had more detail if he'd had more meetings with financial executives. Geithner...
...appears that Geithner went out of his way to get the thoughts of the nation's 8,000 or so small banks. "We found it encouraging that Geithner wanted to know what was important to community banks," says Fine. He says that, since the initial meeting, his staff has had a number of subsequent meetings with Treasury officials...
...unclear, though, whether Fine's special access will translate into financial help. Geithner has said he will spend a certain portion of the remaining $350 billion in the Treasury program formerly known as TARP investing more money in the nation's banks. But he hasn't said whether he intends to use the money to shore up the larger troubled banks or as grants to some smaller banks that don't necessarily need the funds but could use the additional money to make more loans. The government is reportedly in talks with Citigroup to take ownership of as much...
...they are still waiting for a response from Treasury. And that has driven up the resentment of large banks by their smaller competitors. "There is no future for the miserable eight," says Rusty Cloutier, the CEO of MidSouth Bank, a community bank in Lafayette, La., referring to the nation's largest banks. "No one is dealing with that. We can keep pumping money into them, but it isn't going to make it better...
...residential-mortgage business. Instead, they made a lot of loans to local developers. As the economy sours, more and more of those loans are starting to go bad. Some analysts have predicted that as many as 1,000 banks could fail as a result of the nation's economic woes. Many of those banks will be of the smaller variety...