While Wall Street and major banks struggle to survive, Camden Fine presides over a niche of the banking system that has become a model for restoring order and sound investing to the nation’s financial structure. As CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America, Fine represents nearly 8,000 small banks, most with less than $1 billion in assets. His members, who are mostly Main Street institutions, have largely avoided the toxic investing products that have Wall Street reeling. In Washington, ICBA is working to return national focus to the plain vanilla investment models that have kept them solvent. In October, they achieved a lobbying coup with a provision, tucked… Read More