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ICBA: OCC should postpone decisions on recent charter applications

ICBA and other groups told the OCC that recent national bank charter applications raise substantial concerns and urged the OCC to postpone considering the applications.
July 21, 2025 | Press Release   OCC 

GENIUS Act bill to establish stablecoin regulations signed into law

President Donald Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. The bill signing follows a House vote last week of 308-122 to pass the GENIUS Act following Senate passage last month.
July 21, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Digital Assets 

Senators introduce bill to roll back 1071 requirements

Sens. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and John Boozman (R-Ark.) introduced legislation to shield community banks from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Section 1071 small-business reporting rule.
July 21, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

ICBA Welcomes Back Loughlin Cleary as Executive Vice President of Member Relations

The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today announced that Loughlin Cleary has rejoined the organization as executive vice president, member relations. In this role, Cleary will lead ICBA’s nationwide member relations team, working to strengthen relationships with community banks and ensure they are well-connected to ICBA’s advocacy, innovation, and education initiatives.
July 21, 2025 | Press Release  

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.
July 18, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Digital Assets 

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.
July 18, 2025 | Press Release  

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.
July 18, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

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.
July 18, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

Agencies propose rescinding 2023 CRA final rule

Federal bank regulatory agencies issued a joint proposal to rescind the Community Reinvestment Act final rule issued in October 2023 and replace it with the prior CRA regulations after the FDIC board of directors advanced the proposal earlier this week.
July 17, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

ICBA Statement on House Passage of Legislation to Establish Digital Asset Regulatory Framework and Bar U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency

Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on House passage of the GENIUS Act (S. 1582), the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act (H.R. 1919).
July 17, 2025 | Press Release   Digital Assets 

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