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Jul. 18, 2025

Letter Opposing Wise National Trust Bank Charter Application

ICBA sent a letter to the OCC opposing the national trust bank charter application of Wise. ICBA said Wise National Trust’s proposed services—such as multicurrency accounts, debit cards, and cross-border payments—fall outside the intended scope of fiduciary and custodial powers for national trust banks. ICBA also noted that Wise faced a $4.3 million consent order earlier this year for serious BSA/AML/CFT compliance violations and said the OCC should not grant it a national trust charter to expand their cross-border payments business in light of these recent violations.

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Jul. 18, 2025

Joint Letter to OCC on Recent National Bank Charter Applications

ICBA and other groups sent a comment letter to the OCC on the national bank charter applications submitted since April. ICBA and the other groups said there are significant policy and legal questions as to whether the applicants’ proposed business plans involve the types of fiduciary activities performed by national trust banks. ICBA and the other groups said they believe that the public portions of the applications do not allow for meaningful public scrutiny, and broader change to OCC policy with respect to trust activities requires public scrutiny.

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Jul. 18, 2025

ICBA CRA Solutions/USI Alliance Names Two New Community Bankers to its Board
ICBA CRA Solutions/USI Alliance, an ICBA subsidiary, today announced the election to its board of directors Shon Myers, president and CEO of Farmers & Merchants Bank in Miamisburg, Ohio, and Andrew Tinberg, president and CEO of CNB Bank and Trust N.A., in Carlinville, Ill.

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Jul. 18, 2025

House passes bills to establish digital assets regulatory frameworks, bar U.S. CBDC
The House of Representatives passed three bills designed to establish stablecoin and digital asset regulatory frameworks and prohibit the United States from issuing a central bank digital currency.

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Jul. 18, 2025

Independent Banker: It matters who has access to master accounts
The latest Independent Banker magazine spotlights efforts by nontraditional financial companies to get access to Federal Reserve master accounts and why ICBA is working to protect access to these accounts.

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Jul. 18, 2025

FHA: Disaster area for Texas floods expanded
The Federal Housing Administration shared that the Presidentially-Declared Major Disaster Area declaration in Texas issued on July 6 due to the recent catastrophic flooding across the state was updated to include additional counties.

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