Frank Sorrentino, chairman and CEO of North Jersey Community Bank, admitted to being afraid of Dodd-Frank in a recent interview with Marketplace for American Public Media.
“Of course we want to lend,” Sorrentino told Marketplace’s Shereen Marisol Meraji. “The issue is we may have our hands somewhat tied for fear of where these regulations are going.”
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Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., reported that banks in his district are “scared” by the law’s many rules, and even Robert Jackson, a co-author on one of Dodd-Frank’s early drafts, acknowledges that banks are “skeptical and nervous, and that’s very understandable.”
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