«Since the fall of»08 we have lost one community bank a day seven days a week... as a result, quite truthfully, of, obviously
competition from
nonbanks, but most particularly by a huge regulatory burden, some 12,000 pages of proposed and final rules in Dodd - Frank,» Frank Keating, president and chief executive of the American Bankers Association, warned in a television interview on Tuesday.
«This is consistent with the narrative that, if you're a very safe borrower or a large corporation, it is very easy for you to get a loan — in fact there is a lot of
competition because these borrowers have access to lots of
nonbank sources,» Covas said.