First National Bank owns a data processing company that sells financially related data processing services to various businesses in the community. Daniel Tyler, a loan officer, is negotiating a loan to a local CPA firm. He would like to make the loan conditional on the CPA firm's use of the subsidiary data processing firm. May he do so?
Mills Company, Inc., is a manufacturing company with a working capital line of credit from First National Bank. The credit agreement governing the loan states that Mills cannot obtain additional unsecured credit without the approval of the bank. Mills believes that such a clause violates the Bank Holding Company Act's anti- tying clause. Does it?
Harvey Smith is a loan officer at First National Bank. Which of the following of Harvey's outside business interests may be considered to be a conflict of interest that should be disclosed to the bank?
Martin Taylor, a loan officer at First National Bank, is a long-time friend of Bill Evans, a local homebuilder. Bill would like a line of credit at the bank and discusses the potential loan with Martin. During the discussion, Martin expresses his desire to build a house one day and Bill offers to build him one "at cost plus 5 percent." If Martin accepts Bill's offer, can he continue to act as his loan officer?
First National Bancshares, Inc., a bank holding company, filed an application with its Federal Reserve Bank on March 1 to acquire a subsidiary bank. On March 15 the Federal Reserve Board asked First National for more information. On April 1 the Federal Reserve Bank received the completed application and accepted it. On April 5 the Federal Reserve Bank notified First National of the April 1 acceptance and referred the application to the Federal Reserve Board. Under the normal rules, by what date must the Federal Reserve Board act on the application?