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Industry issues in Colorado

                   •  State examples
                          o  Proactive – Ensuring CO isn’t in conflict with Reg. E, preserving lien
                              possibilities on lines of credit, electronic trust notices, patent trolls,
                              safe deposit box access…
                          o  Reactive – “150” bills – many focused on restricting banks

                              (foreclosures, fees, practices…) and imposing requirements
                              (disclosures, liability for…)


                                                    Where we are now

                   Many potentially harmful and important proposals anticipated for 2018 in CO
                   legislature

                   •  State operated mandatory retirement program for employees not covered by
                       a retirement plan now (CBA killed last year, it’ll be back)
                   •  Restrictions on cross selling, incentive compensation and arbitration

                   •  Management responsibility/liability and fraud definition/consequences
                   •  Safe deposit box access
                   •  Variety of anti-business bills



                   Some examples of CBA’s work on banks’ behalf (a partial list)

                        •  Several foreclosure bills (expedited     •  Strongest delinquent dad/mom law
                           foreclosures…)                               (exemption from liability,
                        •  Comprehensive blockage of                    reimbursement, minimized record
                           commercially owned ILCs providing            matching/reporting, lien notices,
                           banking services                             reports only 2/year, banks’ setoff)
                        •  Enhanced fraud investigations and        •  State tax treatment
                           prosecution,                             •  Credit insurance (highest
                        •  Precluded bank impersonation,                commissions)
                        •  Modernized statutes to facilitate        •  Lender liability (four bills — e.g.,
                           prosecution of fraud across several          commitments to lend only in writing,
                           jurisdictions,                               no liability re contaminated property,
                        •  Restricted ability of commercial             no implied terms)
                           companies like Wal-Mart from             •  Bank authority to sell insurance
                           owning Colorado industrial banks,        •  Central filing of liens (6 bills), & local
                        •  Identified critical issues regarding         governments must file liens
                           third party examiners for unclaimed      •  Reimbursement banks/borrowers’
                           property,                                    cleanup contaminated properties
                        •  Preempted local regulation of            •  Debtors' fraudulent transfers
                           banking,
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