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Municipal Bond Worries Spur OCC Scrutiny of Banks' Exposure
by: Glen Fest, The American Banker
Friday, April 15, 2011
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DENVER — Examiners for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are worried about concentrations of municipal bonds held by national banks, and have begun asking risk officers to evaluate their exposures, an OCC official said.

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