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Harnessing technology to empower your staff and automate processes
SPONSORED | The Great Resignation is lingering longer than many anticipated, leaving financial institutions with many roles to fill and duties to reallocate. In this Dialogue on Demand session, we discuss the benefits of utilizing technology to optimize margins and operate more efficiently with less staff.
December 01, 2022 |
Independent Banker
Lending Payments
What community banks need to know about ESG
SPONSORED | The conversation on ESG went from a murmur to deafening in a short amount of time, so much so that taking a first step might seem overwhelming. There are many reasons to consider ESG factors but focus on why it matters to your organization.
December 01, 2022 |
Independent Banker
Growing the Community
ICBA’s Independent Banker Names 2022 Best Community Banks to Work For
Independent Banker magazine, the award-winning monthly publication of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), announced its 2022 Best Community Banks to Work For recipients.
November 30, 2022 |
Press Release
Community Bank Awareness
ICBA urging grassroots outreach on cannabis banking bill
ICBA is calling on community bankers to urge their members of Congress to pass legislation before year-end that would establish a cannabis banking safe harbor in states where cannabis is legal.
November 30, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Cannabis banking
Senate Finance chair questions crypto exchanges following FTX failure
Washington continued to escalate its response to instability in the crypto sector as the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman questioned leading crypto exchanges on their consumer protections.
November 30, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Cybersecurity Digital Assets Technology
ICBA to CFPB: Promote mortgage refinancing by reducing reg burdens
ICBA responded to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau request for information on encouraging residential mortgage loan refinances by calling on the bureau to reduce unnecessary compliance burdens for community banks.
November 30, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
CFPB issues annual adjustment for file disclosure charges
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule with its annual adjustment to the maximum amount consumer reporting agencies may charge consumers for making a file disclosure to a consumer under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
November 28, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Compliance
ICBA post-election briefing next week
ICBA next week is hosting a complimentary post-election briefing on the midterm election results and pending regulatory actions affecting community banks.
November 28, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Community Bank Awareness
Living will deficiencies at Citi as regulators push more stringent approach
The FDIC and Federal Reserve released results of their review of the resolution plans of the eight largest and most complex U.S. banks, finding shortcomings only in Citigroup’s living will.
November 28, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
ICBA pressing cannabis banking, other priorities as Congress returns
With Congress returning to Washington this week for the final leg of the lame-duck session, ICBA is pushing several key legislative priorities and calling on community bankers to weigh in with lawmakers via ICBA’s Be Heard grassroots action center.
November 28, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Cannabis banking Interchange Lending
Op-ed: Crypto response must protect banking system stability
The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange is a predictable example of the serious risks that digital assets pose, and policymakers should ensure new policies directed at the sector fully reflect its risks, ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey wrote in a new op-ed.
November 22, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Digital Assets Technology
Proposed Changes to FDIC Supervisory Appeals System Fall Short of Progress
The FDIC has proposed changes to its new supervisory appeals structure aimed at increasing its independence, but the system still requires significant overhauls to preserve banks’ due process rights, ICBA and other groups said.
November 22, 2022 |
Press Release
Deposit Insurance
Revamped podcast explores future of ICBA ThinkTECH
ICBA released the latest episode of its newly revamped podcast: “Independent Banker: A Community Banking Podcast from ICBA.”
November 22, 2022 |
Podcast
Technology
DOJ announces arrests in $575M crypto fraud
The Justice Department announced the arrest of two Estonian citizens for their alleged involvement in a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money-laundering conspiracy.
November 22, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Digital Assets Technology
FHA now accepting private flood insurance
The Federal Housing Administration said it will accept private flood insurance policies in which the borrower chooses to obtain a private policy instead of flood insurance available through the National Flood Insurance Program, effective Dec. 21.
November 22, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Flood Insurance Compliance
CFPB report targets credit bureaus, mortgage servicers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new Supervisory Highlights report spotlighting legal violations identified during its supervisory examinations in the first half of 2022.
November 17, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Compliance
What’s Ahead for ThinkTECH? — With Jack Hartings and Wayne Miller
Regulators investigating FTX crypto exchange amid liquidity crisis: report
Federal regulators are reportedly investigating cryptocurrency exchange FTX amid concerns of a liquidity crisis at the company and fallout on the rest of the crypto sector.
November 10, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Digital Assets Technology
Lawmakers push Durbin Amendment expansion in must-pass bills
ICBA continues urging community bankers to speak out against a bill to expand on the Durbin Amendment as lawmakers seek to advance the measure during the lame-duck session.
November 10, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Interchange Lending Payments
Senate’s Warren continues push for bank data on Zelle fraud
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) this week sent letters to Wells Fargo and Early Warning Services—the parent company of the Zelle peer-to-peer payment platform—criticizing their response to her recent report on P2P fraud.
November 10, 2022 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
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