Due to technical difficulties at BankBryanCave.com over the last several weeks, email updates were first slowed by more than 24 hours and then ultimately completely stopped working last week. By switching to a third party provider, I believe we have hopefully fixed those problems for the foreseeable future.
In addition, we are now offering three subscription choices: instant alerts, daily emails and weekly emails. Accordingly, you can now have as many (or as few) BankBryanCave.com emails as you desire. To sign up, simply visit our Email Sign-up page and select the frequency of updates that you would like.
I’ve taken the liberty of converting everyone that had previously signed up into the new system, so if you were comfortable with your prior settings, you shouldn’t have to do anything. If, however, you’d like to change anything, you should have a link at the bottom of each email you receive to change your subscription settings.
We are introducing a new feature on BankBryanCave.com, a weekly News Roundup. While this site will continue its current focus on government programs related to the financial crisis, such as the TARP Capital Purchase Program and the FDIC Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, we are very aware that the banking industry is more than this financial crisis. As the banking industry is facing massive regulatory changes, we too are keeping up with other areas of banking.
We have always tracked these events internally, focusing our attention on the best third party resources that we could find. By adding a weekly News Roundup to BankBryanCave.com, we now hope to share these resources with you. Our overviews will offer a quick review of some of the major areas of law affecting our clients, but we recognize that every story won’t be of interest to every reader. As a result, we’re also highlighting the topics so that readers can quickly skim them.
Thanks to the diligent actions of one client, we determined that we had a bug in BankBryanCave.com’s daily emails. That bug has now been fixed (we hope), and everyone that signs up should once again receive nightly emails with the prior days posts.
If you would like to sign up for a daily email (and you can always unsubscribe later), please enter your email address in the “Subscribe for Updates” box and hit the Subscribe button. You should then receive an email with instructions to confirm your subscription.
In light of the merger of Powell Goldstein LLP and Bryan Cave LLP, effective January 1, 2009, BankPogo.com has a new name, a new domain, and a new look. The site is now called, simply, Bank Bryan Cave, and can now be reached at www.bankbryancave.com. We think the new look will make it even easier for visitors to find the information they are looking for, while also increasing the speed of the site.
Despite these changes, the most important things are not changing. The site is still being written by the same attorneys; and we still plan to focus on providing up-to-date information, written in plain English, on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Programs, and other items affecting community bankers.
As we complete the transition to Bank Bryan Cave, there will potentially be technical hiccups, and you may encounter a broken link, or other problem. If you notice a problem, or simply have a request, please send us an email. If you’ve previously bookmarked the site or subscribed to receive updates by e-mail (see the “Subscribe” button on the right hand side of the page), then you don’t need to anything, as they will continue to work.
Over the past several days, the website has undergone significant changes behind the scenes to offer additional functionality for our visitors. If anything is broken, or if there are features that you would like to see, please let us know. We won’t bore you with all of the behind the scenes changes, but we did want to highlight four of them:
- Subscribe to Receive Daily Emails. Anyone can now subscribe to receive daily emails from BankPogo.com which will contain that day’s newest stories. To subscribe, please enter your email address in the box on the right hand side of any page under “Subscribe for Updates.” You will then automatically receive an email each morning with the contents of any new posts.
- Improved Search. As BankPogo.com expanded, the limitations of the search engine were starting to be felt. The new search engine is faster, more comprehensive and gives better results. Give it a try in the top right corner of any page.
- Email a Story to a Friend. At the end of every post, you now have the ability to quickly and easily email a copy of the entire post to a colleague or friend. Just click on the “Email this Content” link at the end of the post and complete the resulting pop-up window.
- Related Content. Because the federal regulators are continuously modifying the information about TARP and the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Programs, new information is added to the website that sometimes modifies previous guidance. At the end of each post, you will now be presented with an automatically generated list of related content that you may also find informative.
Offsetting the new features slightly was a decision to remove comments from the website. To date, we had received two useful and informative comments, and almost 100 spam-related comments. While we were able to suppress the spam comments, they were starting to slow down the site without any benefit to our readers. If you would like to comment on any content on the website, we encourage you to contact us.
