ABA Banking Journal, the official publication of the American Bankers Association.

ABA Banking Journal, the official publication of the American Bankers Association, covers the commerical banking industry in the United States with articles focusing on community banking, e-commerce, technology, online banking, compliance, business lending, retail banking and operations.

The magazine serves commercial bank or trust companies, savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks, mortgage banks, credit unions, finance/accounting/consulting companies, investment banks, brokerage houses, industrial/communications companies, retail/supplier/manufacturing companies, insurance companies, law firms, government, colleges, schools, libraries and associations.

ABA Banking Journal - the flagship monthly magazine of the American Bankers Association - exists to help managers and executives at commercial and savings banking institutions succeed in the competitive financial services market.  We do that by identifying and exploring relevant business and societal trends, and by helping bankers cope with the many legislative/regulatory issues they face.

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COVER STORY
Burning Billions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
By Steve Cocheo. “It’s beyond dispute that mark-to-market accounting has been senselessly destructive of bank capital and is a major cause of the current crisis we have in the financial markets and the economic decline we’re facing.” That damning indictment of “fair-value” accounting theory, and its practice in such forms as “other than temporarily impaired” treatment, comes from former FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac, just one of the voices calling for an end to the insanity.

WEALTH MANAGEMENT
“Talk to Me”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
By Lauren Bielski. The mass affluent and high net worth segments, like everyone else, want straight talk about money management, particularly in such stressful, volatile periods. Wealth managers discuss their communication strategies for setting the record straight during this crisis.

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EDITOR'S COLUMN
Bad ideas you must fight now

one new law, and one existing practice have moved to the forefront. All have the potential to drastically alter the banking industry as we know it.

The idea – is to nationalize banks. All sorts of people are weighing in on this. Some who should know better, support it.

Here’s a question: If the government failed to recognize, ignored, and to a degree encouraged some of the excesses that have gotten us into this fix, how much sense does it make to have the government take control of, and run, troubled banks? ...

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