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The ICBA Newsroom collects and centralizes all the NewsWatch Today articles, press releases, Main Street Matters blogs, advocacy letters and other news that impacts community bankers.
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
ICBA urges Congress to build on pro-agriculture policies
ICBA testified before Congress on the importance of community banks to the nation’s agriculture credit markets and how policymakers can enhance the new farm bill.
July 17, 2025 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Agriculture
ISO 20022 migration for Fedwire Funds complete
The Federal Reserve announced the completed migration to the ISO 20022 message format for the Fedwire Funds Service.
July 17, 2025 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Federal Reserve
ICBA Payments and Visa Renew Partnership Supporting Community Bank Payments
ICBA Payments, a subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA), today announced the renewal of its four-decade relationship with Visa. Together, the organizations are deepening their efforts to equip local financial institutions with the modern payment tools and support they need to grow and better serve the needs of their customers.
July 16, 2025 |
Press Release
ICBA Urges Congress to Build on Pro-Agriculture Policies in Testimony Before House Agriculture Committee
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) today testified before Congress on the importance of community banks to the nation’s agriculture credit markets and how policymakers can enhance the new farm bill.
July 16, 2025 |
Press Release
Farm Bill
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 16, 2025 |
Press Release
2025 Summer Internship Diaries - Vol. 3
Over our 5th and 6th weeks of programming, we continued to develop our skills, learn from ICBA leaders, and have a bit of fun along the way. With only 3 weeks left, we started thinking about our final presentations and learn a bit more about what our final weeks will look like!
July 16, 2025 |
Independent Banker
ICBA urges Congress to update regulatory thresholds
ICBA urged Congress to pursue a much-needed update to regulatory thresholds created by the Dodd-Frank Act.
July 16, 2025 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Housing Finance/GSEs
FDIC proposes ICBA-advocated threshold adjustments
The FDIC proposed raising various regulatory thresholds to account for inflation and to allow future adjustments using an indexing methodology, as advocated by ICBA.
July 16, 2025 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Judge overturns rule that removed medical debt from credit reports
A federal judge in Texas reversed an ICBA-opposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that barred consumer credit reports from including medical debt.
July 16, 2025 |
ICBA NewsWatch Today
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
ICBA Congratulates Luke Pettit on Confirmation as Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nomination of Luke Pettit to be Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions.
July 15, 2025 |
Press Release
Department of Treasury
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