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Mutual savings banks in the United States date back to 1816. Originally these institutions were organized to help the working classes because most commercial bankers at the time primarily served retail and commercial business. Mutual saving banks provided a safe place where the small saver could deposit money and earn interest. Today, mutual institutions continue the tradition of operating for the benefit of their depositors, borrowers, and surrounding communities.
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Mutual banks, also known as mutual institutions, first arrived in the US in 1816. They were originally organized to provide the working class with easier access to banking services. Because most commercial banks at the time primarily served businesses, the needs of consumers were often overlooked. To meet the need for more accessible banking, philanthropists started the first mutual banks. To encourage families to save money, these banks accepted deposits from all classes of consumers, famously allowing deposits as low as only a few cents. Mutual institutions operate for the benefit of their depositors, borrowers, and the surrounding communities.1
Mutual banks are chartered to benefit their local communities. As such, their main purpose is to provide accessible banking services to local consumers and businesses in the form of deposits, loans, and other financial instruments. They also tend to invest in their communities by working with local organizations and businesses.
Mutual banks are not owned by any one individual or entity. Instead, mutual banks are owned by their depositors and do not have capital stock or stockholders. And while these banks are owned by their depositors, their depositors are neither stockholders nor members, and have no vote in how the bank operates.2 Unlike credit unions, mutual institutions are for-profit and pay state and federal taxes. They provide benefits to their depositors in the form of competitive interest rates on deposits and loans, and access to amenities, such as technology and service upgrades.3
The focus of mutual banks is on savings accounts and home mortgages. And while mutual banks tend to prioritize these products, today they offer many ranges of products for consumers and businesses alike, including checking accounts and business loans.
Your local bank is a connection to your community. Because mutual banks tend to serve a smaller area than large commercial banks, their smaller footprint means they prioritize their communities. Being located right in town means that they have good reason to build meaningful relationships with their customers and neighbors.
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Free from stockholder calls for larger returns, mutual institutions still tend to be small, locally focused institutions that are woven into the fabric of the communities they serve. The OCC tailors its examination procedures and off-site monitoring systems to the unique characteristics and operations of these institutions. Mutuals continue to play an important role in providing financial services to communities across America.
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The UK banking system is missing a vital component in driving better social, environmental and economic outcomes for local economies and that missing ingredient is regional mission-led banks. They play a major role in promoting greater regional economic equality in economic competitors such as Germany, France, Japan and the USA. How might the UK also benefit, and what is the role of local government?
To put this into perspective, the equivalent would be a regional mutual bank dedicated entirely to the long-term prosperity of its English namesake, Buckinghamshire plus neighbouring Oxfordshire. And the citizens of those fine counties would have a choice of several other community banks too.
They do the heavy lifting on serving smaller businesses, because their local knowledge and relationship banking model give them a competitive advantage. They complement large banks to ensure that all viable businesses get the service they need. In banking, one size most certainly does not fit all.
That the UK is so unusual in lacking such banks is significant. Including for the purpose of comparison credit unions and community development finance institutions, the combined banking assets in regional mission-led banks in the USA, Germany and France are 3 orders of magnitude larger relative to their population.
The UK once had many regional banks, of course, and was a pioneer of mutual financial services, with a large building society sector still today, and a growing credit union movement. But building societies do not perform the economic role of regional mission-led banks, and the UK credit union sector is tiny compared with other countries.
This has corrected an unnecessary barrier to UK economic competitiveness, because it is not just the US that enjoys mutual banking. The European Association of Co-operative Banks represents 2700 banks across 22 countries.
The strengths of mutual banks also constitute a barrier. The lack of venture capitalists pushing for rapid growth and elaborate financial gains allows a mutual bank to pursue its customer-centric and locally rooted long-term mission.
It takes around 20 million to capitalise a regional bank serving around 3 million people. But the nature of banking is that the initial capital will multiply within a few years to mobilise 400 million of local savings for reinvestment in driving local prosperity.
But, in a sense, Westminster has done its job in opening the door. Will local governments grab the opportunity to walk though it? Or, when it comes to enjoying the benefits of community banking, will the businesses and citizens of Bucks, England, forever be poor relations to their Pennsylvian cousins?
Tony Greenham is Executive Director of South West Mutual, co-Director of Regional Finance Network, a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, and a steering group member of the Banking on a Just Transition project. Tony.g...@southwestmutual.co.uk
Section 12. A mutual company directly or indirectly controlling or owning 1 or more wholly owned stock bank subsidiaries or stock holding companies may elect to convert from a mutual holding company to a mutual banking institution organized under the original charter of its subsidiary banking institution, subject to approval of the commissioner and subject to the following conditions:
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