The Board will not tolerate retaliation against banking organizations that file appeals or raise concerns about the supervisory process. Beyond simple fairness, hearing concerns from banks about supervisory practices gives us extremely valuable feedback that will help us improve supervision and better understand the issues that banks and examiners confront in the field.
11  For more information regarding the appeals process, see Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1995), “Section 309 of the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994, Intra-Agency Appeals Process”, Supervision and Regulation Letter SR 95–18 (March 28), www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/srletters/1995/sr9518.htm.