Regional banks are center stage when it comes to providing funding to small businesses and lending to the housing market on Main Street.
When you look at the iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT) , BB&T Corp (BBT) ,M&T Bank (MTB) , PNC Financial (PNC) , SunTrust (STI) and U.S. Bancorp (USB) are the five largest holdings of the exchange-traded fund which has 58 components and does not include the four “too big to fail” money center banks.
