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PPP grassroots continues ahead of Senate votes

With the Senate bringing two separate measures that include PPP forgiveness simplification to a vote starting today, ICBA continues calling on community bankers and their small-business contacts to weigh in with lawmakers.
October 20, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Advocacy Crisis Preparedness Lending 

ICBA commends FDIC on appeals plan

ICBA commended the FDIC for proposing to create an independent office within the agency to review material supervisory determinations.
October 20, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   FDIC 

ICBA continues PPP video series

ICBA continues its series of videos featuring small-business owners who successfully received PPP loans from community banks. The series on the updated banklocally.org features entrepreneurs whose local community banks worked around the clock to process their loans.
October 16, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

SBA offers EIDL info on PPP platform

Information on Economic Injury Disaster Loan advances is now available on the Paycheck Protection Program Forgiveness Platform for submitted decisions, the SBA said in a letter to lenders with several updates on processing forgiveness payments.
October 16, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Advocacy Crisis Preparedness Lending 

ICBA continues PPP pressure as Senate plans vote

ICBA called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to include Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness simplification in pending stimulus legislation.
October 16, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Advocacy Crisis Preparedness Lending 

ICBA urges Congress to join debate over payments charter

ICBA and other groups this week urged Congress to get involved in the OCC's efforts to grant commercial companies like Amazon or Facebook a national payments charter.
October 16, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Payments 

ICBA launches PPP small-biz video series to elevate community banking

ICBA launched a series of videos featuring small-business owners who successfully received Paycheck Protection Program loans from community banks, often after megabanks proved unresponsive.
October 15, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

ICBA: Rules should facilitate new hemp market

ICBA reiterated its support for provisions in new rules on a federal hemp production program that would not require suspicious activity reports from banks that finance hemp producers.
October 09, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Cannabis banking 

Agencies finalize capital rule updates

Federal banking regulators issued a final rule revising the definition of eligible retained income for institutions subject to the agencies' regulatory capital rule.
October 09, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Capital 

SBA streamlines forgiveness for some PPP loans

The SBA and Treasury Department released a simpler loan forgiveness application for Paycheck Protection Program loans of $50,000 or less to provide needed relief to lenders and borrowers.
October 09, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

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