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ICBA: Any changes to regulatory structure require community bank input

ICBA said any change to the structure of the nation’s banking agencies must involve careful study and input from all stakeholders, including community banks.
February 13, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Agencies/Regulators  

Deadline tomorrow to register to speak during EGRPRA meeting

Community bankers interested in speaking during the next Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act regulatory review must register by tomorrow, Feb. 14.
February 13, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   EGRPRA s.2155 

ICBA Congratulates Jonathan McKernan on CFPB Director Nomination

Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Jonathan McKernan to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
February 12, 2025 | Press Release   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

ICBA Congratulates Jonathan Gould on Comptroller of the Currency Nomination

Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Johnathan Gould to serve as comptroller of the currency.
February 12, 2025 | Press Release   OCC 

ICBA Statement on Media Reports of CFPB Actions, Banking Agency Consolidation

Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey issued the following statement on media reports related to actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and potential consolidation of banking regulators.
February 12, 2025 | Press Release   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

SEC reverses course on ICBA-opposed climate rule

Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mark Uyeda said his agency will seek to freeze court proceedings in a legal challenge to its final rule requiring climate-related investor disclosures, citing his opposition to the rule.
February 12, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Climate 

ICBA weighs in on stablecoin debate

ICBA told Congress that current stablecoin arrangements are not subject to comprehensive supervision and lack many critical consumer and anti-money laundering protections—a regulatory gap that allows risks to the financial system to multiply, provides opportunities for financial crimes, and creates an unequal playing field with highly regulated community banks.
February 12, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Digital Assets 

Powell: No CBDC while he leads the Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the U.S. will never have a central bank digital currency as long as he leads the Fed.
February 12, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Federal Reserve 

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