Dallas Fed Senior Vice President Bob Hankins, who oversees bank regulation in the Eleventh District, discusses the district’s banks—from the risks posed by today’s faltering housing markets to lessons from the turbulence of the 1980s.

Banks in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District are performing better than their peers. However, signs of strain are still evident following the recession and financial market crisis. Some banks that restructure troubled loans by granting borrowers easier terms subsequently find the loans...

In 2009, the banking industry continued to feel the fallout from the financial crisis that began in mid-2007. Some good news was revealed in recently available first-quarter data, however, which showed profitability rebounding and increases in asset-quality problems slowing down. Whether...

Banking industry indicators deteriorated in 2008--both in the Dallas Fed's district and nationwide.

Quarterly since 2006