Bankers! Time is running out to sign up today to be a guest teacher for 2022 Teach Children to Save Day. Make a difference by teaching elementary school students how to develop good savings habits today for a financially strong future!

Teaching is fun and easy! Complete video training is provided, and now available for viewing on the Teach Children to Save Day page! There are plenty of in-person classes available along with a handful of virtual classes.

This year's event, the 24th annual, is April 25th through 29th. The majority of classrooms will be in-person! Teach Children to Save Day educates elementary school students on the importance of developing personal savings habits to build a financially independent future. Over the years Delaware’s bankers have taught an important lesson on saving to over 225,000 kids.

Registration is now open for the Delaware Bankers Association 127th Annual Dinner, May 12 at the DuPont Country Club, 1001 Rockland Road, Wilmington.

Hear keynote speaker Mark Lally, the CEO of First State Compassion. After a 20 year career in law enforcement, Mark trailblazed Delaware’s medical cannabis industry, creating industry-leading procedures and policies while focusing on delivering the best products and service to thousands of patients every month.

Sponsorships are available! Join these prestigious sponsors:

Kickoff the Memorial Day weekend at the Hyatt Place in Dewey Beach and enjoy a refreshing mind and body morning, inspirational keynote, sit down lunch, and early happy hour! The Women Connect Network serves as a catalyst to engage, empower and connect women in the Financial Services Industry. Sponsorships are available: email Corinne Stayton.

Northern Trust: Market Insights - April 14

We are pleased to invite you to join our quarterly discussion on the latest market and economic developments – and what they mean for investors, your portfolio and our oulook. 11 a.m. ET

Troutman Pepper Insight: Eighth Circuit Holds Text System That Randomly Selects Phone Numbers From Database Does Not Qualify as ATDS

On March 24, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion, upholding separate district court decisions finding that a system that sends promotional text messages to phone numbers randomly selected from a database of customer information is not an automatic telephone dialing system (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The concise opinion espouses a common sense reading of the word “produce,” finding that the word requires an ATDS to generate a random number, rather than to select a number randomly.

The CFPB has issued a report titled “Credit card late fees” that discusses the consumer impact of late fees by card type, credit score, and geography, and market reliance on late fees. (Late fees are also among the fees at which the CFPB has taken aim in its “junk fees” initiative.) Following a pattern established under former Director Cordray, the CFPB used relatively neutral language in its report and more judgmental language in Director Chopra’s comments contained in the Bureau’s press release.

Wilmington University will be hosting the Annual Scholarship Golf Classic at Deerfield on Thursday, May 5, 2022. As a valued partner of Wilmington University, we invite you to participate by considering one of the many sponsorship opportunities we have available. We’re excited to be back on the green for 2022, and look forward to hosting an enjoyable event with game-day challenges, golfer gift packs, dinner with a silent auction, and live music. Participants will also have a chance to win a car through the Hole-in-One competition!

We want to hear from you! Please send your news items to

Greg Koseluk at greg.koseluk@debankers.com