From Alumni Connections, No. 44 - March 2008. Alumni Connections is a sampling of alumni news gleaned from media online and in print, including news submitted to Chicago GSB Magazine.
"William Michael Cunningham, Social Investing Advisor of Creative Investment Research, linked the failure of African-American-owned Douglass National Bank to the global mortgage crisis, according to a January 28 article in U.S. News & World Report. The bank, which originated in the 1940s, lost $1.3 million in 2007 and $4.3 million in 2006, the article said. Bad commercial real estate loans, not residential mortgage loans, led to recent losses, the article said. “It’s this secondary and tertiary impact of the crisis in the subprime market that’s beginning to impact smaller institutions mainly through [the slowdown in] consumer spending,” Cunningham told the magazine. He said he expects other small banks to fail, as a faltering economy inhibits borrowers’ ability to repay loans. Douglass is the fourth bank to fail since February 2007, the article said."
See: http://www.chicagogsb.edu/alumni/news/archive/archive-ac-march-08.aspx#alumnitoknow
"William Michael Cunningham, Social Investing Advisor of Creative Investment Research, linked the failure of African-American-owned Douglass National Bank to the global mortgage crisis, according to a January 28 article in U.S. News & World Report. The bank, which originated in the 1940s, lost $1.3 million in 2007 and $4.3 million in 2006, the article said. Bad commercial real estate loans, not residential mortgage loans, led to recent losses, the article said. “It’s this secondary and tertiary impact of the crisis in the subprime market that’s beginning to impact smaller institutions mainly through [the slowdown in] consumer spending,” Cunningham told the magazine. He said he expects other small banks to fail, as a faltering economy inhibits borrowers’ ability to repay loans. Douglass is the fourth bank to fail since February 2007, the article said."
See: http://www.chicagogsb.edu/alumni/news/archive/archive-ac-march-08.aspx#alumnitoknow