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The large bank failures of 2023 demonstrated the clear need to reform the nation’s deposit insurance system. With lawmakers working to gather input and offer deposit reform proposals, ICBA has worked with community bankers to shape recommended reform principles to inform this much-needed debate.

Did you know there is a Best Practices Guide for LMS Users in the Administration Tab? This document should be distributed to all employees of the bank that are taking courses within the ICBA Online Course Learning Management System. This guide will help learners ensure they have their computer settings correct for the courses to launch and function properly as well as close out and mark courses completed after passing the course test.

With the federal government discontinuing new penny production, community bankers and the consumers they serve have many questions about what the change will mean for them.

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Battling fraud in today’s environment resembles the itsy bitsy spider climbing up the waterspout: just as you think you’ve reached a point of effective mitigation, a new scam emerges, dousing you in a new attack approach that can wash you out. And then you have to start that risk-mitigation ascent all over again.

Last month, ICBA’s legislative team conducted a community bank briefing to help familiarize community banks with the ins and outs of the recently passed GENIUS Act, which introduced a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.

ICBA and community bankers have long warned about the dangers of tax-exempt credit unions acquiring tax-paying community banks, a concerning trend that peaked last year and has continued in 2025.

ICBA and community bankers have long warned about the dangers of tax-exempt credit unions acquiring tax-paying community banks, a concerning trend that peaked last year and has continued in 2025.

In just a few short weeks, the fixed-income market’s expectations for monetary policy have done a virtual about-face. This is not to say that investors are fickle. Some of this change in sentiment is data driven; some is Trump administration officials’ cajoling; and some is Federal Reserve Board chairman Jay Powell’s comments in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 22. Regardless, market indicators have shifted from zero or one rate cuts for the rest of 2025, to as many as four.