The Whitlock Company, CPAs and Consultants, Springfield Missouri

As a consultant to community banks, I was excited when Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999. I saw it as an opportunity for community banks to offer additional services to their current customers and to find additional revenue sources to build value for their owners. What I didn’t see was how the large banks would be able to leverage FDIC insured deposits to make risky investments in CDO’s and CMO’s that would ultimately lead to the financial meltdown nine years later.