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ICBA Statement on Financial Regulation Review

ICBA President and CEO Camden R. Fine released a statement on the executive order directing the Treasury Department and federal regulators to review financial services regulations.
February 03, 2017 | Press Release   Regulatory Relief 

What happens when a bank hits $10 billion?

How—and when—should you prepare for the regulatory and cultural aftershocks? And can smaller but ambitious community banks learn from these best-practice preparations?
February 01, 2017 | Independent Banker   Compliance 

Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma Endorses ICBA Securities

ICBA Securities Inc., the broker-dealer subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America, has received the endorsement of the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma.
January 31, 2017 | Press Release  

Community Bankers to Gather in San Antonio for 2017 Community Banking LIVE®

Registration open for the Independent Community Bankers of America's 2017 National Convention, Community Banking LIVE--the largest, most comprehensive educational event for the nation's community bankers.
January 26, 2017 | Press Release  

Marijuana Banking Grows, Terminations Too

More financial institutions are servicing the marijuana industry, but depositories have terminated 5,650 accounts at an increasingly rapid clip.
January 25, 2017 | News   Compliance Regulatory Compliance 

Agencies Release Annual CRA Asset-Size Threshold Adjustments for Small and Intermediate Small Institutions

December 29, 2016 | News   Compliance 

You Don't Have to Fall Short with Fall Back

December 29, 2016 | Payments Quarterly  

Horizon Scanning

Following last issue’s review of compliance in 2016, we look at how community banks will meet the challenges of compliance in 2017
December 19, 2016 | Independent Banker   Compliance Compliance Regulatory Compliance 

Demand-Letter Deluge

Recently, ICBA has witnessed a growing and alarming trend: a resurgence of aggressive demand letters from plaintiffs’ law firms. Unlike the rash of demand letters regarding flimsy patent claims that many community bankers have experienced in the past, this new breed has found a novel source for trolling small businesses: the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
December 19, 2016 | Independent Banker   ADA Compliance Compliance Regulatory Compliance 

ICBA: Credit Union Proposal Would Render Membership Restrictions Meaningless

ICBA expressed its strong opposition to a National Credit Union Administration proposal to further decimate field-of-membership rules for federally chartered credit unions. In a comment letter to the NCUA, ICBA said quadrupling the population limit for most community credit unions to 10 million violates statutory requirements that geographic-based credit unions may serve only a well-defined, local area.
December 12, 2016 | Press Release   NCUA 

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