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The ICBA Newsroom collects and centralizes all the NewsWatch Today articles, press releases, blog posts, advocacy letters and other news that impacts community bankers.
Independent Financial: A New Model for Expanding Healthcare Access
Independent Financial asked what its community needed most, then undertook an innovative approach to supporting public health.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Lindsay LaNore: How To Be a Memorable Leader
Is Your Bank's Website Accessible To All?
Ensuring people with disabilities can access all corners of your bank’s digital properties is more than just a legal requirement. Here are tips on how to keep your content within reach of everyone.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Compliance
Charles Potts: Driving Strategy With AI as a Tool
How Can Community Banks Attract Gen Z Customers?
While youth accounts are a great value-add for parents, younger customers are looking for offerings with a few key characteristics.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Portfolio and Loan-Level Stress Testing: Be Proactive & Examiner-Ready
SPONSORED | Regulators are increasingly mandating stress testing, with growing expectations for community banks to take a more proactive approach. Banks should consider easier and more affordable methods to conduct both portfolio- and loan-level stress testing for more comprehensive risk management.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Compliance
Rethink Your Digital Banking Experience to Retain Customers
SPONSORED | Retain customers, enhance efficiencies, and compete effectively by leveraging cutting-edge technology and a powerful digital banking experience.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Time’s Up for Excel & Managing Credit Risk
SPONSORED | For 45 years spreadsheets have dominated business tasks from bookkeeping and inventory management to advanced data analysis. The problem is the overuse of Excel leads many community banks to embrace terrible tradeoffs – especially in commercial lending. It’s time to ditch your spreadsheets.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Payments
Here Comes the Snow: Lending Support for Winter Businesses
Rain or shine, community banks are there to serve their communities. But how about snow? For some, the cold weather is more than welcome. We talked to four community banks located in winter-centric areas—Alaska, Minnesota, Colorado and northern New York—about how they take advantage of seasonal snowfall and lend to meet the needs of those at the cold front.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Lending
Michael Benedict: Bridging the Gap
Rate cuts may not provide immediate margin relief, but you can take steps to reduce near-term pressure.
November 01, 2024 |
Independent Banker
Growing the Community
FSB concerned about lack of stablecoin regulation
The Financial Stability Board reiterated its calls for countries to regulate stablecoins due to concerns about users losing confidence in stablecoins, which could lead to runs on issuers.
October 31, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Digital Assets
CFPB Penalty Against VyStar Credit Union Exemplifies Consumer Impact of Tax-Exempt Industry’s Lagging Regulatory Oversight
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took action against VyStar Credit Union for harming consumers through its botched rollout of a new online banking system.
October 31, 2024 |
Press Release
CFPB Technology
ICBA: Agencies should publish supervisory highlights on bank-fintech partnerships
To counteract “regulation through enforcement,” ICBA urged federal banking regulators to periodically publish supervisory highlights on key examination findings related to bank-fintech partnerships, similar to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s.
October 31, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
CFPB
Task force updates AML-deficiency jurisdiction list
The Financial Action Task Force—a global anti-money-laundering watchdog—updated its lists of jurisdictions with AML deficiencies.
October 31, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
FinCEN
EGRPRA grassroots letters due today
ICBA is urging community bankers to use its Be Heard grassroots action center to submit comments on the current Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act review ahead of today’s deadline.
October 30, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
EGRPRA s.2155
Blog: ICBA Payments entering a new era
ICBA Payments has a 40-year history of innovation and growth with a successful brand, steady business, and loyal clients—but it’s time for a transformation, according to a new blog post.
October 30, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Gruenberg: Orderly resolutions without systemic risk exception needed
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said there is a need for meaningful action to improve the likelihood of orderly resolutions of large regional banks without the expectation of invoking the systemic risk exception.
October 30, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
FDIC
Hurricane Relief Fund surpasses $100,000, continues vital support for community banks
The ICBA Foundation’s Hurricane Relief Fund—which is dedicated to supporting community bankers, their employees, and communities—has surpassed $100,000 in donations across five states.
October 29, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
EGRPRA grassroots letters due tomorrow
ICBA continues urging community bankers to use its Be Heard grassroots action center to submit comments on the current Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act review.
October 29, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
EGRPRA s.2155
Pew research: Americans don’t think crypto is safe
More than six in 10 Americans (63%) say they have little to no confidence that investing in, trading, or using cryptocurrencies is reliable and safe, according to the Pew Research Center.
October 29, 2024 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Digital Assets
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