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Standing Out In A Vanilla Mortgage Market

Standing Out In A Vanilla Mortgage Market During a time when consumer mortgage lending instruments are virtually identical from bank to bank, Waterford Bank, N.A. in Toledo, Ohio has distinguished...

Jul 01, 2015
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Mortgage Lending

ICBA to FASB: Hit Stop Button on Dangerous Accounting Plan

ICBA to FASB: Hit Stop Button on Dangerous Accounting Plan Washington, D.C. (Feb. 4, 2016)—A delegation of community bankers from the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) met today with...

Feb 04, 2016
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Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

Recent Data Shows Bankers Need to Focus on the Elder Generation

Recent Data Shows Bankers Need to Focus on the Elder Generation The banking industry should recognize that our population is aging at a dramatic pace. According to the Census Bureau, the number of...

Sep 01, 2015
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How Community Banks Should Use Big Data to Become Better, Faster and Stronger

How Community Banks Should Use Big Data to Become Better, Faster and Stronger Today, consumers live in a world where anything and nearly everything they want is at their fingertips. Understanding...

Sep 01, 2015
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Making Loyalty Pay

Making Loyalty Pay Up until three years credit cards didn’t factor into GNB Bank’s profitability picture much, says Shane Tiernan, senior vice president and chief of lending at the bank. It was...

Jul 01, 2015
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Product Announcement - ICBA Bancard Endorses Visa Checkout

Product Announcement - ICBA Bancard Endorses Visa Checkout A Seamless, Secure Payment Option The rise of ecommerce has ushered in a host of new payment methods, including some that bypass...

Feb 01, 2015
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ICBA Asks Farm Credit System Regulator to Explain CoBank Loan to Verizon

ICBA Asks Farm Credit System Regulator to Explain CoBank Loan to Verizon Tax-advantaged FCS lender makes $725 million loan to Verizon in Vodafone buyout Washington, D.C. (Oct. 22, 2013)—The...

Oct 22, 2013
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Farm Credit System (FCS)

ICBA Statement on Nomination of Fed Vice Chair Yellen for Federal Reserve Chairman

ICBA Statement on Nomination of Fed Vice Chair Yellen for Federal Reserve Chairman Washington, D.C. (October 9, 2013)—Bill Loving, Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) chairman and...

Oct 09, 2013
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Deposit Insurance

Knowledge Center - Fannie Mae's New Interactive Training Tool

Knowledge Center - Fannie Mae's New Interactive Training Tool Fannie Mae’s Housing Finance Institute® (HFI™) is launching a new interactive training tool, Planning Your Fannie Mae Training. By...

Jul 01, 2015
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Mortgage Lending Secondary Mortgage Market Secondary Mortgage Market

Product Announcement - Fannie Mae’s Collateral Underwriter

Product Announcement - Fannie Mae’s Collateral Underwriter Fannie Mae’s Collateral Underwriter Helps Lenders Manage Risk, Review Rural Appraisals Collateral Underwriter™ (CU™) is the latest...

Apr 01, 2015
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Mortgage Lending Secondary Mortgage Market Secondary Mortgage Market

Product Announcement - New Integrated Lending Opportunity

Product Announcement - New Integrated Lending Opportunity Now you can offer your borrowers an online consumer loan application that flows directly into your back office for processing. With the new...

Apr 01, 2015
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Mortgage Lending

Never Satisfied

Never Satisfied BACKGROUND: Headquartered in Watford City, North Dakota, $1.8 billion in assets First International Bank & Trust has been an ICBA Reinsurance shareholder practically since the...

Apr 01, 2015
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ICBA Securities ® and Vining Sparks Annual Bank Conference Tackles Tough Issues Facing Today’s CFO

ICBA Securities ® and Vining Sparks Annual Bank Conference Tackles Tough Issues Facing Today’s CFO Employed by Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBS) since June 2010, Chief Financial...

Feb 01, 2015
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Growing Card Usage

Growing Card Usage “Our penetration rates were good; activation rates were pretty good. And [debit card] usage was in the upper quartile,” explains Randy Braun, vice president of retail banking at...

Sep 01, 2014
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ICBA Supports Proposed Supplementary Leverage Ratio Capital Standards for Largest Megabanks

ICBA Supports Proposed Supplementary Leverage Ratio Capital Standards for Largest Megabanks Washington, D.C. (Oct. 22, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) yesterday expressed...

Oct 22, 2013
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ICBA: Hold Wall Street Bad Actors Personally Accountable

ICBA: Hold Wall Street Bad Actors Personally Accountable Washington, D.C. (Sept. 30, 2013)—Camden R. Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA), released this...

Sep 30, 2013
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Too-Big-To-Fail/Systemic Risk

ICBA Testifies Before Senate Committee on Housing-Finance Reform

ICBA Testifies Before Senate Committee on Housing-Finance Reform Washington, D.C. (July 23, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today testified before Congress on the need to...

Jul 23, 2013
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Housing Finance/GSEs

ICBA Statement on House Farm Bill Vote

ICBA Statement on House Farm Bill Vote Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America(r) (ICBA) today released this statement following the House of Representatives'...

Jul 11, 2013
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Farm Bill

ICBA Strongly Supports Proposed Supplementary Leverage Ratio Capital Standards for Largest Megabanks

ICBA Strongly Supports Proposed Supplementary Leverage Ratio Capital Standards for Largest Megabanks Washington, D.C. (July 9, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today...

Jul 09, 2013
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Capital

ICBA: Greatest Threat to Financial System is Too-Big-To-Fail

ICBA: Greatest Threat to Financial System is Too-Big-To-Fail Washington, D.C. (June 26, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today told Congress that the greatest ongoing...

Jun 26, 2013
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Too-Big-To-Fail/Systemic Risk