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Fintech Application Period Kicks Off for ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator

ICBA today opened the application period for its third ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator program in partnership with The Venture Center. The latest iteration of this global fintech accelerator continues ICBA’s mission to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish.
August 12, 2020 | Press Release  

HUD sets aside funding to help low-income households amid COVID-19

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $472 million in CARES Act funding to help low-income families during the coronavirus pandemic.
August 12, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Crisis Preparedness Housing Finance/GSEs 

Smaller lenders lead on PPP: SBA data

Lenders under $10 billion in assets have made some 2.74 million Paycheck Protection Program loans worth more than $233 billion through both rounds of funding, the SBA reported.
August 12, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

ICBA’s Romero Rainey to policymakers: streamline PPP forgiveness process

Policymakers need to simplify the onerous forgiveness process for small businesses to ensure the Paycheck Protection Program fulfills its purpose to support the nation’s top job creators, ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey writes in a new op-ed in The Hill.
August 11, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Advocacy 

ICBA to CFPB: extend GSE patch

ICBA filed a comment letter urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend its policy exempting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage loans from the bureau’s Qualified Mortgage rule to January 2022 or one year from the finalization of any proposed rule.
August 11, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Housing Finance/GSEs 

OCC reduces assessments due to COVID-19

The OCC is reducing assessments due to the OCC on Sept. 30, 2020, because of the COVID-19 emergency.
August 11, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Crisis Preparedness 

Main Street, Inc. Acquires Marketing Technology Software Provider Onovative

Main Street, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven print services to community financial institutions across the nation, announced today the acquisition of Onovative, an automated marketing technology software provider based in Louisville, Kentucky.
August 11, 2020 | News  

ICBA payments brief focuses on small biz

ICBA's latest Payments Executive Brief focuses on how community banks can use payments to take advantage of small-business opportunities.
August 11, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

PPP forgiveness platform now live

The Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness platform is live and scheduled to begin accepting loan-forgiveness applications and decisions today.
August 10, 2020 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Crisis Preparedness Lending 

Visa American Mood Trend (August 2020)

Visa’s economists report on the dip in consumer confidence in July, how back-to-school spending will differ in 2020, and expectations for business conditions over the next six months.
August 10, 2020 | News  

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