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Streamlining the Bank Secrecy Act
Streamlining the Bank Secrecy Act ICBA recently advanced the debate on modernizing the Bank Secrecy Act in a new white paper. By Lilly Thomas As ICBA continues working to build on the regulatory...
Relevant. Innovative. Motivating.
Relevant. Innovative. Motivating. Investing in education and leadership training is vital to preparing the next generation of community bankers and key to any community bank’s succession planning...
An Optimistic Future
An Optimistic Future As a well-known speaker and educator in the community banking industry, Barret Graduate School of Banking President and Director Chris Kelley knows all too well the importance...
ICBA Out Front on Community Bank Advocacy
ICBA Out Front on Community Bank Advocacy Just as community bankers establish symbiotic relationships with their customers and communities, ICBA and the community banking industry maintain strong...
Do Not be Spooked by Cyber Threats
Do Not be Spooked by Cyber Threats Today’s cybercrime is masked in various forms and unassuming emails as criminals look to best the system for financial gain.ICBA is doing its part to help...
Regulatory Developments—August in Review
Regulatory Developments—August in Review Although August is typically a sleepy month in D.C., policymakers were still hard at work last month—which meant that the ICBA’s regulatory affairs team was...
Taking Stock of Your Core Processor Relationship
Taking Stock of Your Core Processor Relationship Three banks sound off on using ICBA's Core Processor Resource Guide as a blueprint for managing this complex, critical and expensive technology...
ICBA 2018 Election Analysis
ICBA 2018 Election Analysis Voters delivered narrow control of the House to Democrats, sharpening oversight of the Trump administration and bringing a raft of new policy initiatives. In a special...
Career Development: A Priority for Today’s Modern Workforce
Career Development: A Priority for Today’s Modern Workforce Employees expect transparency and want to know their employers’ plans for growth and how they fit in. One way to address this shift in...
Agencies Improving Appraisal Regs
Agencies Improving Appraisal Regs The federal banking agencies recently responded to industry requests with a proposed rule to increase the threshold where bankers could use a property evaluation...
Assessment Credits Bring a Happy New Year
Assessment Credits Bring a Happy New Year With the holidays almost here, community banks recently received some good news that has been years in the making. The FDIC announced that the Deposit...
A New Farm Bill Has Landed
A New Farm Bill Has Landed The adoption of the ICBA-backed legislation is quite remarkable given that community bankers and the agricultural community have been told for most of this year that the...
Subchapter S Sit-down
Subchapter S Sit-down ICBA has been working with policymakers to ensure the new Subchapter S tax deduction is workable for community banks. Main Street Matters sat down with ICBA’s Alan Keller,...
Investing in the Future of Community Banking
Investing in the Future of Community Banking ICBA this week kicked off the next chapter in our journey to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish with the launch of the...
Shared Values Bring Shared Success
Shared Values Bring Shared Success Community bankers, you outdid yourselves in 2018. As we near the end of this significant year in community banking, it is worth taking a moment to look back and...
Emergency Credit Union Merger Just Another Power Grab
Emergency Credit Union Merger Just Another Power Grab The only thing “emergency” about the Pentagon Federal Credit Union merger with Progressive Credit Union is the giant alarm it should set off...
10 Tips to Expo Like A Pro
10 Tips to Expo Like A Pro When searching for new vendors or even managing your existing vendor relationships, nothing in the digital realm can quite compare to the personal connections that are...
Holding CECL Accountable
Holding CECL Accountable While ICBA continues working to minimize the negative impact of CECL on community banks, we have been instrumental in making significant progress since FASB began proposing...
It's Bootcamp Time at The Venture Center
It's Bootcamp Time at The Venture Center Kevin Tweddle: For community bankers, innovation is no longer a buzzword—it’s a state of mind. Charting the Innovation Path with ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator...
Community Bankers to Influence ThinkTECH Accelerator Solutions
Community Bankers to Influence ThinkTECH Accelerator Solutions The ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator bootcamp has begun! Things are moving quickly, and we’re hard at work helping our 10 finalists develop...