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8/14/17
-- CRA:
Comment on
small business
lending data.
Federal
Reserve:
Passing the
buck of bank
boards'
duties? Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching. UN - Global:
On
Yemen, UN
Envoy IOCA
Tweets of
Churros Amid
Airstrikes on
Taizz &
Sa'ada,
Censorship.
Enviro:
Cities ranked
on pollution.
Bronx
/ NY: In
UN Guinea
Bissau Holds
Night Event
With Chinese
Art, MOU With
UNCG, Ng Echo
8/7/17
- CRA:
Challenge to
Sandy Spring /
WashingtonFirst
filed with Federal Reserve
by Fair
Finance Watch.
Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
looking at. UN
- Global:
After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks UN of
Carlos Garcia,
Helped Bribes,
Still In UN.
Enviro:
Pollution on
New Delhi. Bronx: UN
Allows
Censorship by
N Korea of Art
Show, Leaves
It & Press
Restrictions
UNexplained
7/31/17 -- CRA: Amid Fed & OCC Sterling CRA Scam, Otting & Quarles In Senate July 27, FOIA. Federal Reserve and Synovus Talked "Confidential Supervisory Matter" July 21, on Cabela Application. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Stole 25,000 Cars By Imposing Unneeded Insurance, CRA Downgrade Should Continue. UN - Global: After Bribery Conviction, UN Told Reuters It Wants to Get Paid, ICP Asks Why, Video Here. Enviro: Plastics in Cameroon. Bronx: Piano District Scam
7/24/17 - CRA: While Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve Paper Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting and Quarles In Senate July 27. Bank Beat: Associated Bank's July 20 proposal to buy Bank Mutual. UN - Global: In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, South South News Paid Ashe Wife, UN Staff & Contractors. Enviro: Denmark complains about EU. Bronx/DC: Brownfields; As Reuters Live-streams Spicer's House, Got Press Evicted From UN For Streaming Formal Meeting 7/17/17 - CRA: Quarles Nominated to Federal Reserve Board As It Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland in 1st Settlement, UN Sends to Greece Nimetz, Adviser to Firm Invested in Greek Bank Saxo, Conflict of Interest. UN - Global: On UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, UN Won't Answer on DGACM, Says DPI "Issue of Judgment.” Enviro: India legal complaint. Bronx: Shelter abuse, flight to Honduras7/10/17
-- CRA:
Regulators
Said
Sterling's CRA
Data
Unreliable,
Under FOIA
Federal
Reserve Blacks-Out
Most of 400
Pages, Patreon. Bank
Beat: ICC
Slams South
Africa For Not
Arresting
Bashir, IMF
Cites
“Weakening
Governance,”
Corruption.
UN
- Global:
On
Burundi, After
ICP Asked UN
Repatriated
Mayuyu, Now to
Somalia, DSG
to Act or Not?
Enviro:
Landfills in
Malaysia. Bronx: In
1st UN Bribery
Case, Lorenzo
Admits $20,000
a Month from
Ng's South
South News, in
UNTV
7/3/17 -- CRA: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Now Admits to Federal Reserve It Needs to Improve 2017, Denial? Bank Beat: Like UN's Haiti Impunity, ICP Asks of New Srebrenica Decision, BNP Paribas Bank on Rwanda. UN - Global: On Haiti, ICP Asks Guterres Spox If New Cholera Envoy Against Reparations, No Answer. Enviro: Tunisia protests. Bronx Lebanon Hospital shootings
6/19/17 -- CRA: As SoFi Applies For Bank, FFW Opposes Evasion, Interest Rate North of 20%, FinTech. Federal Reserve new low: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Response Here. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Quoted UN IFAD Official In Its Press Release, IFAD Tells ICP No Partnership. UN - Global: UN Killed 10,000 in Haiti, Spox Claims UN Listens, ICP Asks of UNSC Visit. Enviro: Plastic waste from Haiti re-used. Bronx: Bathgate brownfield and Low Income Housing Tax Credits
6/12/17 -- CRA: While OCC Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting Nominated as Head, Resume Fraud. On Brazil Land Grabs & CRA Flaws, Federal Reserve Parrots TIAA, Which Alludes To Confidential Info. Bank Beat: After FFW Protested on Cabela, Synovus Snail Mails & Withholds Response, Here; ICP Asks IMF About South Sudan, They'll Meet in Kenya June 12, Need Peace for Program. UN - Global: On Cameroon, Failing Fall's UNOCA Site Out of Date and Broken, Inaccurate Report Here. Enviro: UN Ocean Conference Ends on River Balcony, Guterres On Junket, New Envoy in the Works? Bronx: If you replace Sheridan Expressway, it should be with parks6/5/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Gets Cut Off from New NYC Business After CRA Downgrade, Sterling Next? Federal Reserve Expedites Now Delays Press FOIA on Bank Beat, Sterling - Astoria. UN - Global: Cameroon Visit of UN's Fall Cites Human Rights Concerns, UN Tells ICP, After 4 Days' Questions. Enviro: Plastic from Mich to Africa. Bronx: MTA failing
5/29/17 -- CRA: After Fair Finance Watch Protested Synovus - Cabela, Federal Reserve Asks Synovus 7 Questions. Bank Beat: WashingtonFirst / Sandy Spring Bancorp; ICP Asks IMF About Saudi - Blackstone Deal, and Possible Extension for Ghana, Cameroon. UN - Global: ICP Asked UNSG Guterres for Speech, Haiti Read-out, None Provided, Now S Korea - Japan, Money Talks? Enviro: Pollution in NYC. Bronx: The GlobaLocal seen, just south 5/22/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Mis-Sends Response, Federal Reserve Expedites ICPs FOIA. Bank Beat: Mnuchin says OCC head is picked, banks to big to succeed. UN - Global: After ICP Asked of WIPO's North Korea Work, Nikki Haley Calls WIPO UNtransparent and Dangerous, Cyanide. Enviro: UK worse pollution than US. Bronx: UN Federal Credit Union Solicits North Korean & UNA-USA Funds, After NK Missile 5/15/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, ICP Exposed It, FFW Demands Hearing from Federal Reserve, Files FOIA. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Sri Lanka Inland Revenue Act, Here, and For Cameroon Silicon Mountain Update. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN Of WIPO Using Criminal Defamation Law, Spox Says “Not A Responsive Choice.” Enviro: Pollution in Nepal. Bronx: Of Souleymane Porgo; At UN, Press Coverage of Biz Event Praising Goldman Sachs Hindered by DPI Censorship 5/8/17 - CRA: After Capital One Failed on Cabela, Synovus Applies to Federal Reserve & Fair Finance Watch Protests, Here. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: From Cameroon to UNSC, "Urgent & Confidential" Memo About Weapons, Copter, via Patreon. Enviro: UK pollution. Bronx: At UN's World Press Freedom Event, ICP Asks of UN Censorship, WIPO & FAO, 1-Line Response5/1/17 - CRA: After FFW Protests Sterling's Application To Buy Damaged Astoria, Fed Confirms Receipt. Federal Reserve After FFW Protest Cites Community Bank OCC Deal & Disparities, Rubber-stamps Merger. Bank Beat: We're looking at South State saying it'll buy Park Sterling. UN - Global: Google Hinders Publication of ICP Video of UN Defending Abuse by Peacekeepers, DPI Deal So Patreon. Enviro: At UN, Indigenous Tells ICP Guterres Hasn't Met Them, Of Norway & Dakota Access Pipeline. Bronx: History in the soil in Mott Haven.
4/24/17 - CRA: Belated fines against predatory Deutsche Bank by Federal Reserve, now what? Bank Beat: On Yemen, IMF Tells ICP Central Banks in Aden & Sana’a Should Cooperate to Avoid Famine. UN - Global: On Burundi and ICP's Scoop of Kafando as UN Envoy, Shingiro Tells ICP Gov Comfortable With. Enviro: AMA on light pollution. Bronx: At UN, DPI Prejudice Against Critical Press UNanswered, Bello Wiffs on Haiti and Roma 4/17/17 - CRA: After FFW protest to TIAA-CREF and Everbank, Federal Reserve's Fifth Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Another merger to watch, and Wells Fargo Branch Closing Notices. UN - Global: UN Praised Cameroon Half-Net Pledge as Clergy Prosecuted, Defends RC Rajat Blocking Inner City Press. Enviro: South Korea fears. Bronx: At UN, Request To Explain Censorship of Press Yields 1-Line, Spox Says Criticism Is Harassment4/10/17 -- CRA: Homage to Kansas City activist Williams. Federal Reserve quietly weakens merger review, rejects challenge without reasoning. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Syria, After US Airstrikes ICP Asks UN What de Mistura's "Operationally Focused" Means. Enviro: Glasgow pollution. Bronx to UN, Fight for Press Freedom
4/3/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Paying $110 Million For Fake Accounts, 400 Branch Closures Still On? Federal Reserve loosens merger reviews, ICP Fair Finance Watch requests reconsideration. Bank Beat:3/13/17
-- CRA:
After
FFW Protest
Stopped NYCB
Bid, Astoria
Wants To Be
Bought By
Disparate
Sterling.
Federal
Reserve
has more
questions for
Simmons. Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching, and
IMF
Tells Inner
City Press
Risks In
Cameroon in
2017 Include
"Events" in
Anglophone
Areas. UN - Global:
UN's
Cameroon
Troops in CAR
Accused of
Abuse, ICP
Asks UN's Haq,
No Answers,
Failing. Enviro: On
Honduras,
World Bank
Gets Sued. Bronx:
Gentrification
slated for
Mott Haven
3/6/17 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Fed Sends Community Bank System 9 Questions, CEO Tryniski Trashes CRA. Federal Reserve switching Secretary post from dev. Frierson to Misback. Bank Beat: Merger and job loss in Indiana. UN - Global: As UNSC in Cameroon, Nothing on Anglophones from UN When ICP Asks, Ebute's Letter. Enviro: Talk in South Carolina. Bronx: BP says he supports Home Stability Support plan
2/27/17 - CRA: Overdraft abuse by FNB Bank downplayed by Federal Reserve on merger. Bank Beat: After IMF Tells ICP No Talks with Nigeria of Program, ICP Asks UN About Oslo Fundraising. UN - Global: After Guterres' Press Freedom Meeting, Spox Tells Press "It's Not Your Living Room," Runs. Enviro: Kenya urged to protect EJ activists. Bronx: Amber alert leads to “Foxhurst,” Hagstrom hangover 2/20/17 -- CRA: Of Capital One and Cabela's Bank. Federal Reserve rubberstamps mergers at Reserve Bank level. Bank Beat: Heartland Financial wants to grow in Colorado. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Uses UN in Kenya, Kim Won-soo in NY, Spox Calls Press Obsessive A*hole. Enviro: Indian mine in Australia. Bronx: Slumlord or vivero? 2/13/17 -- CRA: Amid DC Moves On CFPB, Acquisitive Simmons Is Asked by Fed of FFW's Protest. Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo to leave, FOIA improvements still needed. Bank Beat: Merger fall-out in Ohio. UN - Global: After PA's Fayyad Blocked, UN Selectively Spins US Green Light, UK Not Mentioned. Enviro: Free speech win in Alabama. Bronx: Catholic schools closing 2/6/17 - CRA: Branch closings by Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve asks United Bankshares about cases. Bank Beat: Mergers we're watching. UN - Global: UN Waste In Dump Caused Malaria in Central African Republic Under Ladsous, Bermann Next? Enviro: Niger Delta. Bronx: Fishing of post boxes, gone 1/30/17 -- CRA: Head of Community Bank System Mark Tryniski calls fair lending baseless. Federal Reserve goes vague on BB&T. Bank Beat: Investors Bancorp, already conditioned by Fair Finance Watch, had deal blow up. UN - Global: UN Wastes Funds Keeping Clinton-Aligned Feltman So His Pension Vests, Draft EO Here. Enviro: Trudeau and indigenous. Bronx: RIP Wayne Barrett - and Bobby Garcia 1/23/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch challenges Community Bank System to Federal Reserve on Vermont proposed merger. Bank Beat: Simmons First tells FFW will close branches. UN - Global: US Has Asked For Ban Ki-moon Brother To Be Extradited, Hearing Reveals As Obama, Power Leaves. Enviro: Entergy in New Orleans. Bronx: UN Again Bans Staff From Women's March, ICP Questions, Gallach at Power's Elex Party1/16/17 -- CRA: Challenge to Scottrade - Toronto Dominion. Federal Reserve grilled on film. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: UN Referred ICP's Corruption Qs to Ban Ki-moon Seoul Spox, Whom They Have Never Called. Enviro: Mining in the Philippines. Bronx: Outgoing Samantha Power smirks at Haiti, cholera
1/9/17 -- CRA: Cardinal and United plans to close branches, but how many? Federal Reserve after comments asks. Bank Beat: The strange case of Capital One and Cabela's “World Foremost Bank.” UN - Global: As Budget Scrutiny Looms, UN Must Do Better on Press Freedom, Due Process and FOIA under Antonio Guterres. Enviro: Cambodian NGO against sand mining scam. Bronx: NYT promotes gentrification, again 1/2/17 -- CRA: After ICP filed FOIA request, Federal Reserve released entirely redacted fair lending plan in TIAA - Everbank proceeding. Bank Beat: Bank of Hope, closing branches. UN - Global: New UNSG Guterres Calls for Peace, Yemen, Myanmar & Burundi Early Tests. Enviro: EPA Office of Civil Rights. Bronx: For New Year's Eve in Times Square, Ban Ki-moon dropped the ball for the last time.12/26/16
-- CRA:
Bank
Merger Called
Off After ICP
Protested
NYCB - Astoria
on Disparities.
Federal
Reserve
delays on TIAA
- Everbank
FOIA request.
Bank
Beat: Next
round on
Capital One. UN - Global:
US
Power Abstains
on UNSC
Settlements
Resolution, As
UN Talk Turns
To Trump.
Enviro:
Ecuador
Chevron case
firings. Bronx:
Brownfield
with “historic
fill”
12/19/16 -- CRA: Terms expiring at OCC, FDIC and two Federal Reserve governor vacancies. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On South Sudan, US Draft Passes 15-0, ICP Asked US Power of UN Arming Warlord. Enviro: Coal ash protests in Puerto Rico. Bronx/NYC: UN Thugs Attack ICP Outside Ban Ki-moon's $1200 Wall Street Event, Throw Periscoping Phone
12/12/16 -- CRA: Now TIAA tries to withhold compliance information, Federal Reserve gets FOIA request. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Guinea Bissau's Bank Bailouts, No Deadline to Unwind. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Pays Public Funds To Call Detroit a 3d Rate Flyover City, Evicted & Restricts Inner City Press. Enviro: NoDAPL. Bronx: After NYC Praises UN, ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Gallach's Violations of Free Press & Due Process 12/5/16 -- CRA: After FFW Challenges TIAA-Everbank, Federal Reserve's 3d Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Mega-merger... in Kazakhstan? UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon To Fly For Anti-Corruption Award from Qatar After Promoting Son in Law to Top UN Post. Enviro: Princess Cruises' intentional pollution. Bronx: Open up North Brother Island - and Hart Island Too 11/28/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Union - Cardinal, Federal Reserve gets FOIA on TIAA. Bank Beat: Merger slides. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Thrown Out of UN Global Compact, Mines in Myanmar. Enviro: NoDAPL news. Bronx: Sin City fall-out11/21/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma, despite compliance settlement, gets Federal Reserve rubbert stamp. Bank Beat: Trustmark is at it again. UN - Global: On Myanmar, Where Ban Ki-moon's Brother Mines, US Accepts Outcome-Less Briefing By Nambiar, Who Says Give Them Time. Enviro: UN Passes Buck After Morocco Rejected COP22-Accredited Beiruk's Document. Bronx NYC: Ban Ki-moon NYU Speech Has Prerequisites While $100,000 Speech Withheld
11/14/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges TIAA-Everbank, They Submit to Federal Reserve A Defense of Lending, Brazil Land Grabs. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: After UN Ban Ki-moon Censors Press, Expresses to Trump Confidence in Cooperation. Enviro: COP 22 and Civil Society Excluded. Bronx: the split electoral district11/7/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges People's United Bank's Suffolk Bid, Federal Reserve Asks 13 More Questions, Layoffs Threatened. Bank Beat: Looking at Genworth. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Involved in Myanmar, Greenwashing. Enviro: COP 22. Bronx: Read-lining by Barnes & Noble
10/31/16 -- CRA: Challenge to TIAA's Attempt To Buy Everbank to Federal Reserve, Citing Landgrab in Brazil. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Hadi's Bid to Move Yemen Central Bank, Spox Calls It Complex. UN - Global: Under New SG Guterres, Who Will Head UN Peacekeeping, Public Information? Enviro: ICP on Dakota Access Pipeline Asks UN Expert, Then Ban Ki-moon's Spox, “No Communication,” Like Haiti. Bronx: Gentrification Watch 10/24/16 -- CRA: After redlining settlement, BancorpSouth tells Federal Reserve its merger applications are withdrawn. Bank Beat: Another merger we're looking at. UN - Global: As Ban Ki-moon Conceals DC Speech & Is Protested at UN, Tells Wire Of His South Korea Ambitions. Enviro: Detroit incinerator. Bronx: Where's UN on killing of Deborah Danner? 10/17/16 -- CRA: ICP Challenges FNB's Reach into the Carolinas for Yadkin Bank, Files with Federal Reserve on Disparities in Baltimore & Ohio, Insiders. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Looking At. UN - Global: ICP Asked New SG Guterres About Yemen, His Transition Team Here. Enviro: EPA to re-examine flares in TX, LA. Bronx: Tour de Bronx10/10/16 -- Bank Beat: BNC's lending to people of color fell in 2015. CRA: People's United got worse in NYC in 2015 but Federal Reserve calls it “untimely.” UN - Global: On Yemen, ICP Asks UK, France, NZ & Saudi After Airstrike on Funeral, No Draft Yet. Enviro: Trend found in UN report. Bronx: In praise of libraries.
10/3/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina enforcement actions withheld by Federal Reserve, which brags about applications withdrawn, BancorpSouth still in. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo grilled on the Hill. UN - Global: On Next UNSG, Of Kazakh Deputy & Nordic Dreamers, Russia To Get Political Affairs? Enviro: EJ paper tiger. Bronx: Clay Ave Tenants Association head to UN conference in Quito 9/26/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina, still withholding CRA plan from ICP, get more Federal Reserve questions, here. Bank Beat: We're watching TIAA - Everbank. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban Ki-moon's Mentor Han Seoug-soo of Moonlighting with StanChart & Doosan, He Says Banks Too. Enviro: Proposal shot down in California. Bronx: Gentrification documented 9/19/16 -- CRA: As Bank of Oklahoma is forced to respond to ICP's protest by OCC, will Federal Reserve take note? Bank Beat: Maryland, Ohio and history. UN - Global: For UNGA, Ban Ki-moon Prints Book on Legacy, But Who Wrote & Paid For It? Enviro: California app. Bronx: Maduro of Venezuela in the West Bronx. 9/12/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges Its Suffolk Bid, People's United Calls NYC "Lower Hudson.” Federal Reserve gets FOIA request on BancorpSouth. Bank Beat: United - Cardinal, we're watching. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon & Son In Law Use Jaffna Massacre Commander As Nepotism Defense. Enviro: Southeast activists meet. Bronx: Reynaldo Cuevas killing revisited9/5/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma's low satisfactories, KC Performance Evaluation scams. Federal Reserve gets admission and demand for confidential treatment from Bank of North Carolina. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Yemen Central Bank, Zim & Mozambique, IMF Staff Moves In. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Promoted Son In Law Reportedly Posed With Dead LTTE Fighters. Enviro: Baton Rouge EJ advocate, rest in peace. Bronx: Getting some LinkNYC wi-fi
8/29/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BNC - High Point, Now Federal Reserve Asks Questions, Here. Bank Beat: Astoria Bank re-schedules its annual meeting, after protest. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Signed Letter Giving Son-In-Law Top UN Job in Kenya, Confirmed to ICP. Enviro: Big 90 corporations cause more pollution. Bronx: Old school filing dumping8/22/16
-- CRA:
People's United
“Comfortable” With No Loans
to People of Color in NYC in
2014. Federal
Reserve Jumbles Merger
Applications (But Takes
Goldman Sachs' Sunday
Calls). Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth
Down for the Count. UN
- Global:
At
UN, Why Ban Ki-moon
Dropped from Public List
Officials Who Refuse to
Disclose UNexplained.
Enviro:
With Floods in Baton Rouge,
New Gulf Drilling Rights
Opposed. Bronx:
Calling Out People's United
8/15/16 -- CRA: Citing Redlining, ICP Challenges People's United Bid For Suffolk County National Bank. Federal Reserve Disses Flint, Rubber Stamps Chemical-Talmer. Bank Beat: BNC Would Close At Least 3 High Point Branches. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo With UN Bank Standard Chartered, Spokesman Claims Bullying. Enviro: Oil water on plants in Cali? Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens and Harlem and Washington Heights Hall of Shame most recent nominee: People's United
8/8/16 -- CRA: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Federal Reserve Fines It $36M, Denies FOIA. Bank Beat: “Super-community” in NM, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo Is Director of UN Contractor Doosan, UNethical? Enviro: Shale wealth fund idea from UK to US? Bronx: Standing in Bronx Criminal Court delay case. 8/1/16 -- CRA: In FOIA farce FDIC Withholds in Full BNC's Compliance Plan the Federal Reserve Relied On. Bank Beat: On Zimbabwe, ICP Asks IMF of Arrears, If Any Program, UN of UNrest, #ThisFlag. UN - Global: On UN DSS Security Scandal, UN Refuses To Name Sponsor, If Ban Ki-moon Approved Or Negligent. Enviro: News from Nigeria. Bronx: Home Street church replaced, History Channel Out.7/25/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested NYCB - Astoria on Disparities from NY to Cleveland, Federal Reserve Questions, One-Two Punch? Bank Beat: Yadkin Wants to Sell to FNB Before Closing 12 NewBridge Branches. UN - Global: On Next SG Straw Poll, Results & Questions of Dual Nationalities, Exclusive. Enviro: Marching to DNC in Philly. Bronx: Gentification market, security abuse
7/18/16 -- CRA: Chemical & Talmer in $1B proposed merger “misunderstand.” Federal Reserve wants to get to know Bank of Oklahoma better. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Jordan & Lebanon, Reply Here, S Sudan & Yemen Not Yet. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox Why 6 UN Guards Hindered It, Spox Replies He Was Stalked While NHK. Enviro: New law in Newark, NJ. Bronx: As YouTube Hinders Publication of UN Q&As, Censorship Questions UNveiled7/11/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BancorpSouth, Now Sued by DOJ, Chemical & BNC. Federal Reserve Asks Chemical About Talmer Branches. Bank Beat: Deals We Are Watching. UN - Global: In S Sudan Leaked UN Memo Says 150 Soldiers Dead As Some Joined Kiir's Tiger Force. Enviro: Bloomberg on EJ. Bronx: ICP Asked UN About Philando Castile & Alton Sterling, Working Group Condemns
7/4/16 -- CRA: FDIC extends time on BNC, But Withholds Compliance Plan. Federal Reserve lets Bank of the Ozarks Off the Hook. Bank Beat: Chemical seeking U.S. Bank funds to buy Talmer. UN - Global: As UN Bribery Ng Case Expands, Ban Ki-moon in Para 12, His Spox Covers Up. Enviro: Gulf Coast letter to Big Green. Bronx: DJ Kool Herc in Crotona Park 6/27/16 -- CRA: Capital One closing branches. Federal Reserve ready for Brexit. Bank Beat: Chemical asked about Talmer. UN - Global: Brexit's UN Fall-Out, UK Less Likely to Veto Malcorra, Scottish P5 Question? Enviro: Duke Energy in NC. Bronx: ABC carpet pulls the rug out from under community 6/20/16 -- CRA: While withholding Compliance Plan, BNC goes for High Point. Federal Reserve lets Huntington withhold antitrust info. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Sri Lanka Airlines Resolution, Iraq & Mozambique. UN - Global: UN Rapporteurs Mistold by Ban's Gallach Of "Altercation," Press Eviction Pretext. Enviro: Coal victory in River Rouge. Bronx: Attack in Parkchester must be investigated. 6/13/16 -- CRA: Chemical lending in Flint toxic like water. Federal Reserve sends ICP its Qs to Huntington. Bank Beat: Some ones we're watching. UN - Global: UN Told Nobel Winner Ramos-Horta ICP "Openly" Broke UNpublished Rule, Geneva Next. Enviro: Oil field still closed in Los Angeles. Bronx: Roll back the rent 6/6/16 -- CRA: BNC Bancorp Withholds Compliance Plan Cited in Order by Federal Reserve, Which Called ICP/FFW A Day Late. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Tariff Rise. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Ng & Corruption, Request for Q&A, "All the Time You Need.” Enviro: EPA's EJ 2020 Action Agenda. Bronx: Ebling Brewery, Now a Brownfield5/30/16 -- CRA: Old National plays hide the ball with Anchor Bank cut backs. Federal Reserve still withholds FOIA documents. Bank Beat: protests of a bank merger.. in India. UN - Global: As Ban Politics in S. Korea, Hankyoreh Notes ICP's Qs About Kim. Enviro: Vermont chainsaws. Bronx: going market rate in Mott Haven, can you say, gentrification?
5/23/16 -- CRA: Looking at Cash America - First Cash (or, Cowboy and Frontier). Federal Reserve continues FOIA delay. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Cut of Subsidies. UN - Global: UN Censors Q About Ban & Freedom of the Press from Transcript, New Low. Enviro: Metal shredding in Minneapolis. Bronx: Africa films 5/16/16 -- CRA: Huntington FirstMerit documents requested under FOIA still withheld. Federal Reserve questions by ICP, on video. Bank Beat: Franklin Financial Network and Civic Bank & Trust. UN - Global: Press on UN Rape & Genocide Accepted, But Ban's Corruption Triggered Eviction. Enviro: Alabama landfill SLAPP. Bronx: amNY for gentrification 5/9/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington Yields “Ex Parte” Notice. Federal Reserve: ICP's Republic Comments Lead to RALs Footnote. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN About Lack of Whistleblower Protections, Miranda Brown, Retaliation. Enviro: EJ Talk. Bronx: Rent Guidelines Board 5/2/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Chemical Talmer, focus on Flint. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago lists no email address. Bank Beat: On Sri Lanka, IMF Reaches $1.5B Program, ICP Asked in Feb, Accountability. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of US Bill on Peacekeeper Rapes, UN Doesn't Keep Records. Enviro: Demographics of Flint. Bronx: Et tu, Amazon? 4/25/16 -- CRA: On Huntington - FirstMerit, Comment Extended to May 16 New Date, As Federal Reserve Delays FOIA Response to ICP. Bank Beat: KeyCorp's Mooney Brags. UN - Global: After UN Evicts ICP, Ban's Spox Says "You've Been Afforded A Lot of Courtesies". Enviro: Amid Climate Hoopla, ICP Asks NRDC & Oxfam of ICAO and REDD Offset Scams. Bronx: Webster Avenue Changes, Gentrification Must Be Fought4/18/16
-- CRA:
Huntington is
defending closing 107
branches, ICP
re-petitions Federal
Reserve for
hearings. Bank
Beat: Goldman
Sachs' settlement is a
bad joke. UN
- Global: Ban
Ki-moon Has ICP's
Files Thrown Onto
1st Av, Bribery
Audit Names His
Gallach. Enviro:
Hillary in Sunset
Park. Bronx:
Back
to the roots
4/11/16 - CRA: While Huntington proposed to closed 107 branches, Federal Reserve closes its ears? Bank Beat: Mergers large and small. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of Audit Criticism of DPI's Gallach, Lax on Slavery, Impunity? Enviro: At Apollo Theater, Bernie Sanders Asks Why Kids in South Bronx have to suffer asthma
4/4/16 -- CRA: ICP Zeroes In On Huntington Bank, Shutting Low Income FirstMerit Branches, files request for reconsideration of Federal Reserve approval of Goldman Sachs - GE. Bank Beat: Merger pace sped up in 2d half of 2015. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Says ICP Covers Wrong Things After Orders Eviction by April 6. Enviro: NYS Environmental Protection Fund boosted. Bronx: Evicton Pending for Chronicling the UN “Country Club” 3/28/16 -- CRA: On Huntington, ICP Expands Protest to FirstMerit, Akron Data Here. Federal Reserve: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Fed Approves GE, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Anger in Canada at RBC branch closing. UN - Global: On Western Sahara, UN DPI Bans ICP From UNSC Stakeout March 21, Minders March 24. Enviro: Airborne lead north of Minneapolis. Bronx: Gentrification on E 144th Street 3/21/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington - First Merit filed by ICP with Federal Reserve, more than 100 branch closings. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Zimbabwe - Loans Not Sure - & Vultures Dart & Singer. UN - Global: ICP Asked About Lorenzo's Bribery, US Cites UN Audit, Not South South News. Enviro: Australia action on Peabody Energy / coal. Bronx: After Ousting Press, Ban Tells Bronxites To Rise Up For Rights, Hypocrisy 3/14/16 -- CRA: Good news in KC, Federal Reserve protest to BNC, Sandy we hardly knew ye. Bank Beat: Merger snafus we use social media to track, list of deals. UN - Global: UN Jan 29 "Incident" Had UNCA Hiding Ng Lap Seng Info, UN Staff at Pioli's Open Bar. Enviro: ICP asks Segolene Royal of Global Compact at UN. Bronx: HPD's Bean in S. Bx, will the Bean bear fruit? 3/7/16 -- CRA: Amid ICP Protest to BNC - Southcoast, Federal Reserve Gives ICP Memo of BNC Meeting, from Jan 28, Faux Ex Parte. Bank Beat: Conciliation deal in Kansas City. UN - Global Exclusive: UN Yemen Envoy Told Feltman Houthis Ready to Meet in Jordan, Saudi Low-ball. Enviro: St. Louis lead. Bronx: South Bronx Love Letter. 2/29/16 -- CRA: On First Niagara, Key Says It'll Address Branches Later, Withholds to Federal Reserve, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against Deutsche Bank National Trust Co for negligence. UN - Global: UN's Ouster of ICP Opposed from Yemen, Burundi, NY, Nigeria, Dominica, Geneva. Enviro: Bridgeport deal. Bronx: Sedgwick Avenue gets its name 2/22/16 -- CRA: Regions Bank Rating Is Cut to Needs to Improve. Federal Reserve: ICP Protests Republic Bank, Key - First Niagara. Bank Beat: Merger blues in F.N.B. Metro glitches. UN - Global: UN Security Ejecting ICP Wouldn't Give Name, Grabbed ID Badge, Pushed Out Gate. Enviro: Spill prevention win in Southern District. Bronx: Taqueria gentrified out of South Bronx reappears in Brooklyn. 2/15/16 -- CRA: Second protest of NYCB - Astoria to Federal Reserve, Which Asks More Questions, to Feb 26. Bank Beat: IMF Tells ICP Negotiating Mission to Sri Lanka Late March, Burundi, Romania Qs. UN -Global: As New UN Rapes In CAR Revealed in Feb 11 Emails, UN Says DRC Troops Still In Place. Enviro: Hats off to the Moral March. Bronx: Where does NYCB have no branches? 2/8/16 -- CRA: Huntington would close 100+ branches if allowed to acquire FirstMerit. Federal Reserve fines HSBC, belatedly. Bank Beat: Chemical - Talmer flying stealth? UN - Global: SG Ban Claims He's a Scapegoat, Press Qs on CAR Rapes, Corruption Ignored. Enviro: is there a global EJ movement? Bronx: Is Chase Bank branch on Arthur Ave closing? Because it is much reduced 2/1/16 -- CRA: Comments on Key / First Niagara; Federal Reserve didn't reply under FOIA in time, asks Republic Bank questions. Bank Beat: Deals in Ohio and Michigan. UN - Global: After Vote, ICP Asks Colombia's Holguín About Urabeños, She Calls Them a Gang. Enviro: On Coal, ICP Asks UNFCCC's Figueres Of Funding by Banks in Global Compact. Bronx: State of the City by de Blasio at Lehman 1/25/16 -- CRA: After ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, Comment Period Extended to Feb 16 by Federal Reserve, where Goldman Sachs Blacks Out Most of Its Jan 18 Fed Submission, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Mergers, mergers. UN - Global: In Burundi, Shingiro Spoke for US Power, Censorship Not Mentioned. Enviro: At UN, Fake Recycling Can Mixes Glass, Paper & Waste, Ban Ki-moon and Scribes Say Nothing. Bronx: Africa art connection, 149th and the Concourse1/18/16 -- CRA: After
ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, FDIC
Denies Expedited Processing. Federal
Reserve: Goldman
Sachs Tries to Withhold GE's Deposits by
State, ICP FOIAs Fed. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Had Said
Peacekeeping Income in Budget, Off Track.
UN
- Global:
To
Burundi, UN Cites Small Plane From Addis
to Ban Press, No Deployment Answers. Enviro: Comment
on USDA environmental justice plan, to Feb
14. Bronx:
Silvercup to Port Morris, Good or Bad?
1/11/16 -- CRA: Protest of NYCB - Astoria Merger to Federal Reserve, Which Asks 14 Qs, Extends Its Time on Goldman Sachs. Bank Beat: Kentucky's Republic Bank Tries to Withhold, ICP Challenges Under FOIA. UN - Global: Online Censorship Opposed by ICP, Under EU "Privacy" & DMCA in US. Enviro: Michigan declares emergency about poisonous water in Flint - after playing a role in it. Bronx: No room at the Inn (hotels slated for Gerard and Exterior Streets)
1/4/16 -- CRA: Republic Bank's high-cost cards raised to Federal Reserve by Fair Finance Watch. Bank Beat: Criticism of NYCB - Astoria, more to come. UN - Global: UN Won't Name Staffer Who Was Told of CAR Rapes, Won't Answer on Ban's Travel. Enviro: Hotspots in Denver, and the Mousetrap. Bronx: The Get Down
12/28/15 -- CRA: Bank of the Ozarks inquiry; Federal Reserve Asked BNC for CRA Info, Which Withholds It. Bank Beat: Mere extension on KeyCorp - First Niagara not enough. UN - Global: On Burundi, As Imbonerakure Rally, PR at UN Mocks Countrymen, Bans Press. Enviro: Waste transfer stations, NYC. Bronx: Et tu, Zaro's? Closing in Parkchester amid “cretzel” pitch
12/21/15 -- CRA:
Challenge filed to Bank of the Ozarks - C&S with
Federal
Reserve Bank of St Louis. Bank
Beat: On
ISIS Finance, Talk of Oil and Turkey, Paris
Pre-Paid Cards, No Bitcoin. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN & CAR Panel of Ladsous Failing to
Respond on Rights, Ban's UN. Enviro:
Critique of Jerry Brown in Paris. Bronx:
Whose
Streets? NYPD Officer Paid by Deutsche Bank To
Empty Atrium Early
12/14/15 -- CRA:
Challenge to Kentucky-based Republic's Florida move,
Federal
Reserve accepts timely comment. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Malawi Retrenchment, Global Fund
Steps In. UN - Global:
UN
Corruption Association Sells Seats with Ban,
Paparazzi Pioli. Enviro:
On
Paris Agreement on Climate, Grumbles Even at COP
21, of TPP and Ban's Travel. Bronx:
Queens businesses to Hunts Point.
12/7/15 -- CRA:
Fight against
Goldman Sachs - GE Continues, After
Federal Reserve Gov Powell Acknowledges
Wrongful Withholdings. Bank
Beat: BNC
Is Asked, Again, for Information. UN - Global:
IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Program Off Track, &
Zambia, No Request. Enviro:
Brownfields blown off for South
Bronx hotel
11/30/15 -- CRA:
Supplemental ICP Comments on Goldman Sachs to Federal
Reserve, Which Declines Comment. Bank
Beat: Redliner Evans Bank revved up by Key -
First Niagara. UN - Global:
With
Saudi Set to Stone Sri Lankan Maid to Death,
Threats to Sue for ISIS Comparisons. Enviro:
EJ in Baltimore, and Paris. Bronx:
With so many lanuages, no UN in sight
11/23/15 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs Uses Small Bank Relief to Defend Pre-Review of GE Capital Deal by Federal Reserve, Which Tries to Close Ears to Comments. Bank Beat: BNC wants to buy High Point Bank. UN - Global: In UN Rights Com'te, Syria, Iran and N. Korea Resolutions Pass Amid Complaints & Quibbles, On Syria Burundi Votes No, Sudan Abstains. Enviro: On Climate Change, ICP Asks UN's Pasztor of Adaptation, GCF & HSBC. Bronx: Thanksgiving on Walton Avenue
11/16/15 -- CRA: More sleaze
by Goldman Sachs; Federal
Reserve has yet to
rule on ICP's Oct 24
FOIA appeal. Bank
Beat: Acquisitive
Ozarks; IMF
Answers ICP on Iraq
and Mozambique, Not on
UN Antigua Corruption
Case. UN
- Global:
On
Libya, ICP Asks For
Whom Leon Queries UAE
(Himself), No Answer
on Feltman. Enviro:
Bill to test near marine
waste transfer stations
in NYC. Bronx:
Improvement like bike
path, but for who? Latin
restaurant evicted
11/9/15 -- CRA:
Key
Bank - First Niagara
Would Trigger Branch
Closing, Lending
Disparities, FFW Says.
Federal
Reserve acts on a
Goldman Sachs staffer,
but still no extension
or hearing on GE
Capital. Bank
Beat: NYCB -
Astoria? We think not. UN - Global:
Dead
in Lahore, Haider
Rizvi Covered
Corporatization at UN,
Opposed “Mafia”. Enviro: More
Pennsylvania. Bronx:
Rip off on top of rip
off
11/2/15 -- CRA:
ICP
Comments on Goldman
Sachs, As Will on Key
& NY Community
Bank, Federal
Reserve staffer
gives Goldman info. Bank Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on
Austerity in Jamaica,
Not on Antigua
Corruption Case. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks Heyns About
Lankans Killed in Sri
Lanka & Saudi,
Killer Robots Talk.
Enviro:
Pennsylvania's EJ
director is lawyer Carl
E. Jones. Bronx:
Gentrifiers' ball, first
reported by ICP on Sept
14, happens: disgusting
10/26/15 -- CRA: FOIA
Response to ICP Shows
Goldman Met Federal
Reserve in May
on GE, Pre-Reviewed.
Bank
Beat: BNC -
Southcoast. UN
- Global:
ICP
Asks DESA About UN
Rapes, Stats for
Disparate Lending to
Women Like HMDA in US.
Enviro:
Pennsylvania's moribund
EJ office restarts, but
can it review fracking?
Bronx:
The Moth at the Museum.
10/19/15 -- CRA: On
Goldman Sachs - GE
Capital Bank, Federal Reserve Ignores Oct
16 FOIA Deadline,
Collusion Like CIT?
Bank
Beat: Another
merger we're looking at.
UN
- Global:
On
Scandal, ICP Publishes
GSF, Kutesa & ITU
Awards to Bongo &
Hasina, Murky. Enviro: On
Climate Change, ICP
Asks UN's Pasztor of
Carbon Tax, Critiques
of OECD. Bronx:
Tour de
10/12/15 -- CRA: Fed
Re-opens Comment on
Goldman Sachs-GE to
Oct 30. Federal
Reserve
Rubber-Stamps RBC
- City
National Which Bragged
of Collusion, FOIA
Finds. Bank
Beat: Predator
Republic eyes Florida. UN - Global:
On
Scandal, ICP What
Ashe's & Kutesa's
Guards Saw, ITU, UNCA
& South South.
Enviro:
Port City disclosure
ordered in Sri Lanka. Bronx: MetroNorth
in Coop City is good,
but excluding passengers
at Fordham Road must
end.
10/5/15 -- CRA:
Fed
Won't Answer ICP's
Goldman Sachs FOIA
Request Until October
16. As Federal
Reserve Blesses
Hudson City
Discrimination, Silent
on Goldman Sachs.
Bank
Beat:
RBC Met Fed Before
City National
Disclosed, ICP FOIA
Shows, UNreal. UN - Global:
UNGA
Ends Empty, Eritrea on
Sanctions, Burundi Not
Present, 4 Replies.
Enviro:
After
Rousseff Lays Out
Brazil's INDC, ICP
Asks of Deforestation,
Livestock. Bronx:
El Maestro
9/28/15 -- CRA: At UN, Financial Inclusion, Now Pitched by IMF, UNsolved in US, SDGs Reviewed. Federal Reserve silent on Goldman Sachs - GE Capital. Bank Beat: NYS Regulations tells ICP of 30 days extension. UN - Global: At UN, ICP Asks Bolivia's Evo Morales About Sovereign Debt Restructuring in UNGA. Enviro: At UN, ICP Asked Peru's Humala If TPP Investors' Rights Provision Undercut Environment. Bronx: NYT pushing gentrification is despicable.
9/21/15 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs, In Reply to ICP, Brags of Releasing Some Withheld Info, Tells Federal Reserve to Ignore Segarra Leak & Settlements. Bank Beat: IMF Answers ICP on Refugees and Tunisia. UN - Global: On S. Sudan, ICP Asks of Fighting in Maridi, Malakal, Leaked Sit-Rep of UNMISS. Enviro: On Climate Change, ICP Asks Pasztor of 3 Degrees C, Murky Climate Finance. Bronx: Child poverty rate 43%, UNacceptable.7/20/15 -- CRA: Now LA Times covers ICP's UNcovering of Royal Bank of Canada's CNB gun-jumping. Federal Reserve on that; Bank Beat on CBSI - Oneida. UN - Global: On Iran Deal July 20 Vote, After ICP Reports, Reuters Blurs US Spox. Enviro: Crude oil by rail. Bronx: Free high-speed Internet in the Mott Haven Houses
7/13/15 -- CRA: On Dodd-Frank, ICP Asks IMF Of Redefining SIFI to $500B, Of Somalia Remittances. Federal Reserve notes BB&T commitment to FDIC. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Yemen, Ban Ki-moon Was Urged Not to Announce Dubious Pause. Enviro: That time France sunk Greenpeace's “Rainbow Warrior.” Bronx: Multicultural Bronx in display on Allerton Ave6/22/15 -- CRA: Sterling Bancorp calls 14% “immaterial;” Federal Reserve accepts spin, as CBSI violates the law. Bank Beat: First Republic Bank SAYS it's buying Constellation Wealth Advisors. UN - Global: UN Schools in Censorship, Press Ejected by Ban's Guards For Ladsous Commanders. Enviro: On Climate, ICP Asks UN of LDC Fund Under-Funded, South Korea Backsliding. Bronx: Valley National Bank is outed as redliner
6/15/15 -- CRA: More timely comment filed against Royal Bank of Canada - City National; Iowa branch closure games. Federal Reserve: Do any revolving door rules apply? Bank Beat: CBSI - Oneida delay explained. IMF Tells ICP Nepal Applies for RCF, $124 M, Ghana Eurobond Envisioned. UN - Global: From Burundi, Journalists Write to Ban & FUNCA of Crackdown, DSG at AU. Enviro: EPA's EJSCREEN. Bronx: Scam on Tinton Avenue6/8/15 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada - City National Comment Period Extended, Banks Jumped the Gun, Federal Reserve Is Told by ICP. Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking at: Heartland, Valley National, etc. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Tells Four States of “Independent” Panel on Central African Republic Abuse. Enviro: ICP Asks UN Why Of CDM's UNspent Funds, South Korea Backsliding. Bronx: River talk and brownfields.
6/1/15 -- CRA: First Tennessee after protest says it will up low and moderate income lending, plan in August, no approval until then? Federal Reserve closed Royal Bank of Canada comment period, now RBC admits information wrongfully withheld. Bank Beat: IMF Tells ICP "No Time Line" on Yemen or Burundi, Is Nepal "Qualified"? UN - Global: In UN's NGO Comt'e, Freedom Now Voted Down 11-4, Move to ECOSOC Predicted. Enviro: ArcelorMittal is asked for document under Promotion of Access to Information Act. Bronx: On the road to Albany and The Egg 5/25/15 -- CRA: As Senate debated deregulation, bank branches closing. Federal Reserve belated releases CIT docs under FOIA. Bank Beat: Looking at CBSI. UN - Global: UN Is OK with Censorship In Burkina, Silent on Killed Journalist in South Sudan. Enviro: New EJ site. Bronx: Waiting for de Blasio explanation 5/18/15 -- CRA: Unenforced but spun by the regulatory captured. Federal Reserve Governor Powell Revealed as Rubber Stamp on FOIA Denials. Bank Beat: Bid to lift SIFI definition to $500 Billion: Predatory Bender II? UN - Global: IMF Tells ICP of Burundi On Hold, Nepal On Ground, Ghana & Jamaica. Enviro: Canada illegal shipping toxic garbage to the Philippines, which... buries it. Bronx: Dudley Do-Wrong5/11/15 -- CRA: Internet Deposit and Branch Closing Information of CIT and OneWest Withheld by Federal Reserve: ICP Appeals Under FOIA (story here). Bank Beat: Mergers of the week. UN - Global: On CAR Alleged Rapes, ICP Asks Samantha Power of CAR Untold, Ladsous v Leaker. Enviro: ICP Asks UN Why Green Climate Fund Will Finance Coal, Of Pension Fund. Bronx: Four pols named at Lehman for MBK
5/4/15 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada / City National Bank challenged now from both coasts. Federal Reserve hits new low in FOIA delay on RBC. Bank Beat: Hudson City earnings down, CEO doesn't mention his bank's fair lending problems. On Nepal, ICP Asks IMF If Any Debt Relief, New CCR Trust "Possible.” UN - Global: On Rapes in CAR, Transcript of UN Refusing Say Why Never Told CAR. Enviro: Bushwick Gardens. Bronx: Tish James at C-Town, Obama at Lehman College then fundraisers
4/27/15 -- CRA: CRA Protest to RBC - City National, FFW on Lending Disparities. Federal Reserve waits until 11th hour to extends its time on RBC on FOIA. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank hammered on LIBOR, not yet predatory lending. UN - Global: As Talk of Next SG Starts, ICP Asks of USG Set-Asides, Ladsous As Nadir. Enviro: Chevron case proceeds. Bronx: the Week kicks off, but who is YoungWoo?4/20/15 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Hudson City Probed, M&T Slowed, Updated Data Here. Federal Reserve Ask Sterling More Questions, Whither RBC? Bank Beat: On Yemen, ICP Asks IMF of Impact, Ahmed Cites Delay, Hadi Gov Efforts; Deutsche Bank sleaze spreads. UN - Global: For Yemen UN Post, Saudis' Fisherman No Disclosure, UN Vows to Check, A Female? Enviro: EJ 2020 Action Agenda, comment on it. Bronx: Quinoa spells gentrification.
4/13/15 -- CRA: Will more delay for M&T - Hudson City put an end to the ill-fated deal? Federal Reserve failed to instruct or release wrongly-withheld CRA plans. Bank Beat: Focus on Cathay General - Asia Bank, branch closings? UN - Global: In CAR, Ladsous' DPKO Uses Live Fire, Death As In Mali, Withheld As In Haiti? Enviro: Pope Francis set to chime in with encyclical before COP21. Bronx: Eye on the Broadband Taskforce on digital divide 4/6/15 -- CRA: Protest by ICP to Royal Bank of Canada / City National, eye on Pac West - 1 Square. Federal Reserve plays dumb on previous comments. Bank Beat: IMF answers IMF on Ghana program. UN - Global: For Yemen Aid Access, Saudis Want UNSG Support for Offensive, ICP Learns: 2 Hours for a Statement. Enviro: Sunset Park watches Jamestown's Industry City. Bronx: Amid gentrification, public funds for (Trump's) Bronx golf course in Ferry Point Park: priorities? 3/30/15 -- CRA: As branch closings accelerate, they are left murky by FDIC and Federal Reserve: “Public Interest” directors of Reserve Bank all corporate, at least in Cleveland. Bank Beat: When Popular acquired Doral Bank, no comment perior or review: UN - Global: On Yemen, State Dept in Contact with Benomar, Who's Engaged With Houthis, IMF Postpones First Review (and No Answer on Haiti). Enviro: Bakken oil train cars in Houston. Bronx: Unclaimed funds.3/23/15 -- CRA: M&T withholds its answers for more than a week. Federal Reserve must be more transparent. Bank Bank: Eye of Pac West bid for Square 1. UN - Global: On Yemen, Emergency UNSC Meeting After 5 Weeks & Bombings. Enviro: the justice Atlas. Bronx: Gentrification by Chetrit and Somerset in Port Morris.
3/16/15 -- CRA: Fed Belatedly Asks M&T About Discrimination, OCC Asks Sterling on CRA. Federal Reserve more specific on Sterling / Hudson Valley. Bank Beat: IMF Says It Will Answer on Yemen After Stabilizes, As Talks of Calm in Bangladesh; On Sri Lanka, IMF Tells ICP External Debt Cost's Issue for Creditors, Not It. UN - Global: UN Tells Peacekeepers CAR Is Not Dangerous, To Limit Their Pay. Enviro: NEJAC on Clean Power Plan rule. Bronx: Whither Jerome Avenue re-zoning? 3/9/15 -- CRA: Citigroup dumps CitiFinancial on Springleaf, the old American General. Federal Reserve's Tarullo reigns in NY Fed, Eugene Ludwig on complexity. Bank Bank: The Too Big To Fail get bigger. UN - Global: As Bangladesh Cancels Press Accreditations, UN Does Nothing, Not Involved. Enviro: Swine waste case in Carolina. Bronx: What'll Parks & Rec's Silver do with all the Bronx parks ideas? 3/2/15 -- CRA: Testimony against CIT - OneWest. Federal Reserve: More withheld under FOIA, appealed. Bank Beat: Branch closing frenzy, UNnamed financial reporting service. UN - Global: On Bangladesh, ICP Asks UN of Murdered Blogger Avijit Roy, UN-free Press. Enviro: de Blasio in PlaNYC outreach. Bronx: Post Office to be named for Badilla? 2/23/15 -- CRA: CIT's Thain Met Fed 3 Weeks Before OneWest Merger, FOIA Shows, Redactions. Federal Reserve meets insiders, brags of 4 application approvals in a week. Bank Beat: IMF Talks Up Ukraine Program, On Libya No Answer, Of Yemen's Poor. UN - Global: On Bangladesh, ICP Asks UN How Reviews Peacekeepers, If Meet Zia. Enviro: Fight for a creek in Tijuana. Bronx: From “Hunts Point Lifelines” to the Bronx River 2/16/15 -- CRA: Coverage of HSBC money laundering misses Household Finance predatory lending connections. Federal Reserve asks First Horizon questions about TrustAtlantic. Bank Beat: M&T faces pre-trial conference April 7. UN - Global: After Selling UN Jobs in DRC & Haiti, Cote d'Ivoire Deputy Still in UN. Enviro: Tulane EJ conference. Bronx: Why is City opposing waste equity bill? 2/9/15 -- CRA: With CIT OneWest Merger Under Fire, Hearing Feb 26 by Fed & OCC. Federal Reserve belatedly releases its merger schmoozing. Bank Beat: Sterling - Valley National is dubious, highly dubious. UN - Global: UN Jobs Sold By Ivorian Mission in Ladsous' UN Peacekeeping, Leaks to ICP Show. Enviro: Anti-fracking march in Oakland. Bronx: African Advisory Group.