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The Power is Yours
The Power is Yours Another ICBA Capital Summit is in the books, and it might have been the best one yet. While last year’s White House visit of more than 100 community bankers is hard to beat, this...
Giving MDIs and CDFIs a much-needed boost
Giving MDIs and CDFIs a much-needed boost ICBA has a long-standing commitment to Minority Depository Institutions and Community Development Financial Institutions. They play a crucial role in...
A CRA partnership case study
A CRA partnership case study Under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), partnerships between minority- and majority-owned banks can prove beneficial for all parties. Here’s how two banks came...
Planning for success
Planning for success By Scott Heitkamp, chairman of ICBA I hope you all had a great summer. Hopefully, you got some well-deserved R&R following a very busy first half of 2017. We’ll certainly need...
Keep Going
Keep Going Rebeca Romero Rainey: We banded together, worked tirelessly for years on end, and achieved substantial regulatory relief via passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and...
Prioritize Leadership. Propel Your Career.
Prioritize Leadership. Propel Your Career. By stopping to focus on our own leadership, we generate the needed grit and creativity to lead forward. If it seems like a challenge to you, accept it. If...
Planning for Our Industry’s Bright Future
Planning for Our Industry’s Bright Future Rebeca Romero Rainey: As a third-generation community banker, I understand the importance of paving the way for future leaders. That’s why I’m excited to...
Clearing the Air Over Cannabis Banking Legislation
Clearing the Air Over Cannabis Banking Legislation Aaron Stetter: ICBA recently supported legislation that would protect the traditional banking system when banking cannabis-related businesses in...
A Union for the Ages
A Union for the Ages We are in an era of innovative collaborations—where the marriage between technology and service holds the promise of helping community banks deliver more personalized customer...
Lead With Vision
Lead With Vision Reimagining traditional leadership concepts and pushing the community banking industry forward is imperative to carrying on the incredible legacy of the community banking industry....
We’re Not Done Yet
We’re Not Done Yet The push for regulatory relief continues. We have a host of issues ahead of us, and community banker participation is essential in bringing them to the forefront of Congress...
Let’s End Disparate-Impact Disparities
Let’s End Disparate-Impact Disparities HUD should amend its fair lending disparate-impact rule to meet the limitations imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court. By Lilly Thomas With policymakers reviewing...
Does Your Bank Have a Learning Culture?
Does Your Bank Have a Learning Culture? The community banking industry is accustomed to required annual training mandates but the recent evolution in employment benefits makes learning a compelling...
The Good Fight
The Good Fight Rebeca Romero Rainey: We need a regulatory environment that supports and encourages community banks like Abacus Federal Savings Bank and we need community bankers like the Sung...
Open Your Eyes
Open Your Eyes The nation’s tax-exempt credit unions have big plans for their multi-billion-dollar tax subsidy—a nationwide marketing campaign funded by the rest of us. By Rebeca Romero Rainey The...
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...
Accelerating Time-to-Market with the Venture Center Bootcamp
Accelerating Time-to-Market with the Venture Center Bootcamp Meeting The Venture Center team and our 10 finalists inspired me, and I am confident that all community bankers stand to benefit from...
ICBA Launches Partnership with the Congressional Management Foundation
ICBA Launches Partnership with the Congressional Management Foundation ICBA is proud to announce a new partnership with the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit...
Exploring Cyber Solutions with Accelerator Finalist Adlumin
Exploring Cyber Solutions with Accelerator Finalist Adlumin ICBA's Kevin Tweddle talks cyber solutions with ThinkTECH Accelerator finalist Adlumin. Brian Otteman of High Plains Bank in Flager,...
Making Banking a Social Endeavor with Accelerator Finalist Invest Sou Sou
Making Banking a Social Endeavor with Accelerator Finalist Invest Sou Sou ICBA Bancard's Tina Giorgio profiles ThinkTECH Accelerator finalist Invest Sou Sou and its social banking account...
Streamlining Digital Lending with Accelerator Finalist MK Decision
Streamlining Digital Lending with Accelerator Finalist MK Decision ICBA Bancard's Tina Giorgio profiles ThinkTECH Accelerator finalist MK Decision and its online loan origination system, creating a...