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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 

ICBA details community bank provisions of new tax law

ICBA released a briefing document outlining the key community banking provisions of the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act budget reconciliation package (H.R. 1).
July 15, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today  

OCC says it will no longer examine banks for disparate impact

The OCC announced that it removed references for disparate impact liability from the “Fair Lending” booklet of the Comptroller’s Handbook, started removing references in other materials, and instructed examiners that they should no longer examine for disparate impact.
July 15, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   OCC 

Agencies issue statement on cryptoasset safekeeping

The federal banking agencies issued a joint statement to provide clarity on banks' engagement in cryptoasset-related activities, highlighting potential risk-management considerations related to holding cryptoassets on customers' behalf.
July 15, 2025 | ICBA NewsWatch Today   Digital Assets 

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