<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title></title>
	<atom:link href="http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://anonymousbanker.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:26:38 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  Consumers – It’s Time to Go Shopping</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=593</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=593#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Items of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If we are looking to see any meaningful improvement in overall employment in 2010,  we’ll need to boost our spending during this holiday season. 
Consider this:  Following the dismal sales results of the Christmas 2008 shopping season,  2.1 million people lost their jobs in the first quarter of 2009.   
While it&#8217;s true that unemployment dropped from [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=593</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker : Bank of America and Chase commit to increase lending to Small Business through unsafe and unsound, deceptive and unfair credit card practices</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=579</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=579#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Despicable Banking Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending  ---NOT!!!!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Credit Card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card act of 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety and Soundness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Securitization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unfair and deceptive lending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you all know, I’ve been an ongoing supporter of the need for banks to step up to the plate and lend to Small Business.   Credit availability to the small business sector is a necessary component to our nation’s economic recovery. 
The History of the Small Business Credit Line
But I am also a banker, and as [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=579</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  The Worst is Yet to Come. An estimated $1 Trillion in New and Legacy CMBS TALF funds  to bailout the financial industry</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=562</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=562#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending  ---NOT!!!!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF - The Term Asset Backed Loan Facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developers Diversified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a small business advocate.  Always have been, always will be.  It colors my thought process and separates me from our leaders who  believe that this nation’s economic recovery rests in the hands of big business, big banks and Wall Street.
Our leaders publicly  pronounce  the importance of small business.  They publicly sell many of their economic recovery [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=562</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  TALF’s Legacy CMBS program is an abuse of our taxdollars</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=553</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=553#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Recovery Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending  ---NOT!!!!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF - The Term Asset Backed Loan Facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asset Backed Securities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legacy CMBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety and soundness in lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Securitization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that feeling you get when you eat ice cream and it gives you that pain in the side of your head?  Try making sense out of the government program:  TALF – Legacy CMBS and you’ll get the same pain: brain-freeze.
I understand the need to jump-start the securitization markets.  That process is vital to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=553</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair&#8217;s speech portends the end of the era of &#8220;too big to fail&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=547</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=547#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulators and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety and soundness in lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Bair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sub-prime mortgages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, FDIC Chairman, Sheila Bair presented on Systemic Regulation, Prudential Measures, Resolution Authority and Securitization before the Financial Services Committee and U.S. House of Representatives.  It&#8217;s a must read for those of us who favor the philosophy that no institution should be &#8216;too big to fail&#8217; or allowed to act  in ways that can threaten [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=547</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  Small Business takes it on the chin from our Congressional Leaders and Regulators</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=543</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=543#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Despicable Banking Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulators and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending  ---NOT!!!!!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a blog saying that our Congressional leaders and regulators needed to redefine the term small business.   Over the next weeks, I&#8217;ll be following up with more blogs on that theme.  Here&#8217;s my first:
Our President, Treasury Secretary Geithner and our Congressional leaders have all, during the course of this economic crisis, blathered on [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=543</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker Asks:  Will Chase Bank be the first to opt-out of FDIC’s Transaction Guarantee Program?</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=531</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=531#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Despicable Banking Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulators and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chase Bank's public letter opposing extension of the transaction account guarantee program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC insurance fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transaction Account Guarantee Program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 1, 2009 the FDIC extended  the Transaction Account Guarantee Program (TAG) through June 30, 2009 with a modified fee structure.  The banks will have until November 2 to opt-in to this revised TAG program.  When January 1, 2009  rolls around,  there will be a few changes.  Most notable is the increase in the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=531</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  It&#8217;s time for our leaders to redefine the term &#8220;Small Business&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=525</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=525#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending  ---NOT!!!!!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7a loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARC loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBA loan limits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself a small business banker. In that role, I’ve dealt with start-up companies with, initially, zero revenue to companies with revenue of $160 Million.  I’ve worked for relatively few banks over the last thirty+ years, and the “small business market” has been defined by the industry in various ways. 
Most banks define small business [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=525</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker asks you to write your Congressional Leaders in Support of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act &#8211; HR 1207</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=520</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=520#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulators and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF - The Term Asset Backed Loan Facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Grayson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Transparency Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR 1207]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In July I wrote to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and asked them which banks divested themselves of $31 billion dollars of toxic credit card and auto loans through the TALF program. After all, if my tax dollars will ultimately be used to offset losses from these portfolios financed on a non-recourse basis [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=520</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Anonymous Banker:  Please join me and Congressman Alan Grayson in Taking on the Fed</title>
		<link>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=503</link>
		<comments>http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=503#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anonymous banker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulators and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF - The Term Asset Backed Loan Facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Grayson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank Regulators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Score]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liar loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Securitization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking on the Fed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working capital lines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://anonymousbanker.com/?p=503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I’ve been harping on  the TALF program which  is divesting banks of toxic credit card and autoloans.  TALF was supposed to get credit flowing  by breathing life into the securitization market for bank loans. Our country&#8217;s economic system became dependent on the securitization process to manage the flow of credit.  Securitization translates into banks initiating  loans, then packaging [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://anonymousbanker.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=503</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
