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ICBA “dashboard” and briefing highlight community bank-focused advocacy efforts for Q3

ICBA’s third quarter “Advocacy in Action” government relations dashboard and recent advocacy briefing provide community banks with an update on ICBA’s advocacy successes, along with more information about our community bank-focused policy positions before Congress and the financial agencies.
July 05, 2022 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Advocacy 

ICBA guidance on new FDIC approach to re-presented transactions

With the FDIC taking a new, stricter approach to how banks treat single items that are repeatedly rejected for insufficient funds, ICBA released member-protected fact sheet on the issue with recommendations for reducing the risk of penalties.
July 05, 2022 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

Tennessee Community Banker Named Chairman of ICBA Securities Board of Directors

ICBA Securities Inc.®, the broker-dealer subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), today announced the election of Thomas E. Bates Jr., president and CEO of Legends Bank in Clarksville, Tenn., as chairman of the ICBA Securities board of directors. Aza Bittinger, president and CEO of the Community Bankers Association of Ohio; Blake Heid, president and CEO of First Option Bank in Osawatomie, Kans.; and Craig Wanichek, president and CEO of Summit Bank in Eugene, Ore., were also elected to the board.
July 05, 2022 | Press Release  

Nominations open for Best Community Banks to Work For awards

ICBA’s Independent Banker magazine opened nominations for its 2022 Best Community Banks to Work For awards.
July 05, 2022 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

Fed: Community Banking Connections makes business case for relationship banking

The latest issue of the Federal Reserve’s Community Banking Connections herald's the financial resilience and commitment of the nation's community banks in serving local communities throughout the pandemic.
July 05, 2022 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Community Bank Awareness 

TCM Bank Announces New Board Appointments

TCM Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard, today announced that Jack Hartings, chairman of the Peoples Bank Co. in Coldwater, Ohio, and Kathy Underwood, president and CEO of Ledyard National Bank, in Hanover, N.H., were elected to the TCM Bank board of directors.
July 01, 2022 | Press Release  

Charles Potts: Fueling growth through innovation

Innovation is taking place all around us at a pace unlike anything we have ever experienced. We’ve developed an ecosystem to foster growth through innovative partnerships and community involvement.
July 01, 2022 | Independent Banker   Growing the Community 

Mark K. Scanlan: Overregulation is strangling rural America

After the CFPB released its report on the financial issues facing rural America, ICBA emphasized that leveling the playing field and easing rural community banks’ regulatory burden would drive prosperity in these areas.
July 01, 2022 | Independent Banker   Advocacy 

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