ICBA expressed support for legislation to support more flexible agency rules that take account of the size and compliance resources of small businesses.

ICBA continues encouraging community bankers to submit comments by next week’s deadline urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to test and ultimately adopt an ICBA proposal to update mortgage disclosures.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department is committed to ensuring the ongoing health and competitiveness of the community banking system, reflecting ICBA’s calls for policymakers to ensure deposit insurance policy does not pick winners and losers in the banking system.