{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Minority Depository Institutions and Inclusive Lending","description":"Jim Sills, CEO and President of M&F Bank in Durham, North Carolina, joins us to discuss the role of Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), the challenges they are facing during the pandemic, and the opportunities presented by a renewed focus on supporting black owned banks in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death. M&F Bank was founded in 1907 by a group of nine successful African American businessmen in Durham in a thriving district that came to be known as Black Wall Street. Today, M&F Bank is a $265 million asset state-chartered bank with over 70 employees and serving the five largest urban markets in North Carolina: Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Winston Salem and Raleigh. Want to contact the show? Reach out at reiners@law.duke.edu Interested in learning more about issues in financial regulation and policy? Check out the Global Financial Markets Center\u2019s blog, The FinReg Blog. ","author_name":"The FinReg Pod","author_url":"http:\/\/thefinregpod.libsyn.com\/website","html":"