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Jul. 15, 2025

ICBA Congratulates Luke Pettit on Confirmation as Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nomination of Luke Pettit to be Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions.

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Jul. 15, 2025

Letter in Support of Updating Regulatory Thresholds

ICBA sent a letter to House Financial Services Committee leaders ahead of a hearing on the Dodd-Frank Act.

ICBA said the committee should pursue a much-needed update to regulatory thresholds created by the Dodd-Frank Act and other legislation and regulation, adding that such an update would be a commonsense way to ensure threshold exemptions put in place decades ago continue to effectively exempt community banks.

To assist in this initiative, ICBA undertook a thorough review of outdated regulatory thresholds that create a deadweight burden and expense for community banks and shared the results with the committee.

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Jul. 15, 2025

ICBA details community bank provisions of new tax law
ICBA released a briefing document outlining the key community banking provisions of the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act budget reconciliation package (H.R. 1).

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Jul. 15, 2025

OCC says it will no longer examine banks for disparate impact
The OCC announced that it removed references for disparate impact liability from the “Fair Lending” booklet of the Comptroller’s Handbook, started removing references in other materials, and instructed examiners that they should no longer examine for disparate impact.

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Jul. 15, 2025

Agencies issue statement on cryptoasset safekeeping
The federal banking agencies issued a joint statement to provide clarity on banks' engagement in cryptoasset-related activities, highlighting potential risk-management considerations related to holding cryptoassets on customers' behalf.

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Jul. 14, 2025

Community Bank-Relevant Provisions of H.R. 1

H.R. 1 was signed into law on July 4, 2025. Here are the provisions of relevance to community banks.

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