
Tom Ivory
Community Banks and CRE Loans: Lending Challenges
By Tom Ivory, Regents Bank
Over the last few years much has been written about the role several of our nation’s largest banks, money centers, mortgage companies, etc. played in the subprime debacle and near financial collapse of our banking system. Conversely there has been very little written about the fact that community banks played little if any role in creating these problems.