The Texas Bankers Association is your first source for Texas banking issues. News media with questions about the Texas banking industry can contact Olivia Solis, vice president of marketing & communications, at 512-472-8388 or

In addition, we have prepared fact sheets on a number of different issues:

Agricultural Banking

ATM and Debit Fraud

ATM Fees

ATM Safety

Bank Statistics

Bankruptcy

Basel Capital Standards

Binding Mandatory Arbitration

Branches

Check 21

Check Conversion

Check Fraud

Check Processing Facts

Choosing a Bank

College Students and Credit

Commercial Real Estate

Consumer Debt

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Help Lines and Web sites

Consumer Payment Preferences

Corporate and Municipal Account Takeover

CRA & Community Development Lending

Credit Cards

Credit Freezes

Credit Reports

Credit Scores

Credit Unions

Data Security

Debit Cards

Deposit Insurance

Diversity: Outreach and Employment

Dodd-Frank Act

Elder Financial Abuse

Emergencies & Disaster Preparedness

Employee Fraud

Employment Prospects

Fair Lending

Fair Value Accounting

Fees and Pricing of Banking Products and Services

Financial Literacy

Foreclosure

Government Sponsored Enterprise Reform (Fannie/Freddie)

Health Savings Accounts

Home Equity Loans

Homeownership and HMDA

Identity Theft

Industrial Loan Companies

Insurance Sales by Banks

Interchange/Durbin Amendment

Internet Banking

Market Access in China

Marketing: Trends in Bank Marketing and Advertising

Matricula Consular

Merger Effect on Consumers

Mobile Banking

Money Laundering and the USA Patriot Act

Optional Federal Charter in Insurance

Overdrafts: Checks and Debit Cards

Pay Day Lending

Peer-to-Peer Lending

Phishing

Predatory Lending

Preemption

Prepaid Cards

Privacy of Customer Information

Regulation of Banks

Reverse PIN

Robberies of Banks

Safe Deposit Boxes

Safety and Soundness of the Banking Industry

Savings Rates

Small Business Banking

Social Media

Social Security Income and Garnishment of Funds

Subprime Lending

Texas Ratios

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Unbanked and Underbanked Consumers

Volcker Rule

Wealth Management