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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Simple ways to improve your financial awareness and grow
Simple ways to improve your financial awareness and grow Jim Simon, TCM Bank's chief credit officer, writes that a few simple tips can help your improve your financial future. By Jim Simon Tip #1:...
Don't Give a Holiday Gift to Cyber Thieves
Don't Give a Holiday Gift to Cyber Thieves Between now and year-end, online merchants may earn as much as 30% of their 2019 revenue. But they aren’t the only ones hoping for a productive fourth...
Lessons Learned by Damon Moorer
Lessons Learned by Damon Moorer TCM Bank's President & CEO, Damon Moorer, shares his insights on leadership in the work place based on key learning experiences in his career. By Damon Moorer Lesson...
TCM Bank N.A., promotes three leaders to executive level positions
TCM Bank announced the promotions of Terri Howard as executive vice president and chief people officer, C.J. Littrell as executive vice president and chief operating officer and David Gonzalez as...
Getting Started: Twitter
Getting Started: Twitter It's easy to sign up for an account on Twitter, but to create a professional and easy-to-find profile takes a little more effort. Follow this checklist to ensure your...
Getting Started: Facebook
Getting Started: Facebook Setup a Facebook business account to make management easier. Pick a page name and short URL that’s unique to your bank. Here’s what else you’ll need to set up a Facebook...
Getting Started: Instagram
Getting Started: Instagram Instagram Profile Setup Before you can start using the app, Instagram will ask you to create a free account. You can sign up via your existing Facebook account or via...
Getting Started: LinkedIn
Getting Started: LinkedIn LinkedIn company pages help build brand awareness by providing a channel to promote your products and services to customers and prospects. LinkedIn Profile Setup LinkedIn...
Getting Started: Youtube
Getting Started: Youtube YouTube content is a cost-effective way to educate and entertain your audience with bite-sized information and long-form tutorials. YouTube Profile Setup YouTube video...
Rumor Mongering Always Leads to Bad Results
Rumor Mongering Always Leads to Bad Results It’s amazing what you can learn if you just ask. The recent needless confusion over a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau information request is a prime...
Let’s Cut Call Report Paperwork Down to Size
Let’s Cut Call Report Paperwork Down to Size Regulatory paperwork continues to occupy far too many community bank resources that could be dedicated to improving local communities, and the problem...
Chairman Bernanke Reports Progress in Fight for Tiered Regulation
Chairman Bernanke Reports Progress in Fight for Tiered Regulation Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had some positive things to say this week about the nation’s community banks. Noting that...
Gridlock? Congress Getting Along on Community Bank Reg Relief
Gridlock? Congress Getting Along on Community Bank Reg Relief What gridlock? While bipartisanship can be hard to come by here in Washington, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have...
The Sound of Progress
The Sound of Progress I’ll admit it—I’ve been told a time or two that I march to the beat of my own drum. And that’s perfectly fine by me. As you well know, we at ICBA proudly represent just one...
Let’s Take Last Week’s Convention Energy to Washington
Let’s Take Last Week’s Convention Energy to Washington ICBA’s national convention is always an incredible experience. If you haven’t witnessed nearly 3,000 members of the community banking industry...
Wall Street Offers No Shortage of Reasons to Take On Too-Big-To-Fail
Wall Street Offers No Shortage of Reasons to Take On Too-Big-To-Fail With the too-big-to-fail threat continuing to hang over the U.S. financial system, the question on the minds of many Wall Street...
Community Bank Customer Service Can’t Be Shut Down
Community Bank Customer Service Can’t Be Shut Down The government shutdown has come to an end, though the debate over federal policies and spending is far from over. Among the chattering classes,...
Regulatory Capture Old News for Community Banks
Regulatory Capture Old News for Community Banks A new report exposing the New York Fed’s coddling of Wall Street megabanks—particularly Goldman Sachs—is making waves in Washington. And why...
(Double) Standards of Accountability
(Double) Standards of Accountability While much of the nation’s financial policy cognoscenti spent last week musing on the lessons learned since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, some FDIC officials...
ICBA "Going Postal”
ICBA "Going Postal” I’m all for outside-the-box thinking. Fresh ideas and brainstorming are as important in community banking as they are in any other business. But sometimes an idea comes along...
April is a Flurry of Community Banking Activity
April is a Flurry of Community Banking Activity Wow. I don’t think there’s much more you can say with the flurry of activity going on at ICBA and throughout the community banking industry right...
Regulatory Burden Is Capturing Big Headlines
Regulatory Burden Is Capturing Big Headlines While ICBA continues our full-court press toward advancing community bank regulatory relief all the way through Congress and to the president’s desk, we...
A Thanksgiving Blessing: the Libor Fix
A Thanksgiving Blessing: the Libor Fix As we look toward Thanksgiving with thoughts on all of life’s blessings, community bankers recently got a bit of good news that we can all be thankful for....
Guest Blog: Giving Credit Where It’s Due—with Community Bankers
Guest Blog: Giving Credit Where It’s Due—with Community Bankers By Terry J. Jorde Congratulations, community bankers! This week we saw once again that our industry’s hard work and determination on...
Retailers Fishing for Distractions Amid Data Security Push
Retailers Fishing for Distractions Amid Data Security Push Congress is an intentionally deliberative body. It was structured by our founders to ensure collective participation in shaping government...
Millennials Are the Future for Community Banks
Millennials Are the Future for Community Banks Forget what you think you know about Generation Y. The nation’s millennials—the biggest and most diverse generation of customers in our nation’s...
Community Bankers to Washington: Let’s Work Together To Get the Job Done
Community Bankers to Washington: Let’s Work Together To Get the Job Done Last week’s ICBA Washington Policy Summit showed once again that community bankers are not only willing to go the extra...
The Midterms Are Over, but the Community Bank Battle Continues
The Midterms Are Over, but the Community Bank Battle Continues Well, the 2014 midterm elections are in the books. It’s all over but the shouting (almost). With all the close calls, potential...
Take Charge: Combat Call Report Encroachment with ICBA Petition
Take Charge: Combat Call Report Encroachment with ICBA Petition Before I was ever a community banker, I was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and an officer in the U.S. Army. One of the...
Record-Setting Fines Still Megabank Pocket Change
Record-Setting Fines Still Megabank Pocket Change The recent guilty pleas and fines against five of the world’s largest financial institutions demonstrate not that regulators are finally cracking...
Common Sense Prevails on Capitol Hill
Common Sense Prevails on Capitol Hill Sometimes common sense really can prevail in Washington. It’s been known to happen before, but the latest example was the House’s recent removal of an onerous...
Loan-Loss Plan Is Direct Hit on Community Bank Lending
Loan-Loss Plan Is Direct Hit on Community Bank Lending The following op-ed originally appeared Nov. 9 on American Banker’s BankThink blog. It is no wonder that the banking industry strongly opposes...
Community Bank Persistence Pays Dividends
Community Bank Persistence Pays Dividends It wasn’t exactly what ICBA was advocating; nevertheless, nearly all community banks scored a major victory with the industry’s hard-fought exemption from...
FASB Fabrications Show Genuine Disconnect with Reality
FASB Fabrications Show Genuine Disconnect with Reality Some might be surprised to learn that I’ve encountered circumstances so unbelievable I’ve been left speechless (hard to believe, I know), but...
Responsiveness Is Key to Another Productive Year
Responsiveness Is Key to Another Productive Year Welcome to 2016, community bankers! We had a prolific year of advocacy in 2015, and I want to thank all of you for doing your part. ICBA is again...
Taking the Reins of Leadership
Taking the Reins of Leadership “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” General Colin Powell Good leaders aren’t born, they’re...
Conventional Wisdom
Conventional Wisdom What do community banks have in common with astronauts, fighter pilots and football stars? At next month’s ICBA Community Banking LIVE® national convention, community bankers...
Community Bankers Achieve Vital Changes to Accounting Rules
Community Bankers Achieve Vital Changes to Accounting Rules It took years of hard work, but community bankers once again showed they can make a positive impact on new regulations through engaged...
Taking Pride in Successful Capital Summit
Taking Pride in Successful Capital Summit Community bankers have many reasons to stand proud after last week’s seminal ICBA Capital Summit in Washington. Community bankers have many reasons to...
The Story I Heard in New Orleans
The Story I Heard in New Orleans It’s a funny thing. The buildup to the ICBA Community Banking LIVE® national convention is a massive undertaking, one that uses up every ounce of energy from ICBA...
A Matter of Responsibility
A Matter of Responsibility A hallmark of community banking is accountability. Community bankers are held accountable to their customers because they live and work in the same neighborhoods. As...
White House Shows Commitment to Community Banks
White House Shows Commitment to Community Banks As much as I enjoyed being with my fellow community bankers in San Antonio last week at ICBA’s national convention, it was nice to get back to...
Evaluating the Psychology of Money
Evaluating the Psychology of Money Rarely do I pause to share recommended reading, but a new feature in this month’s Independent Banker magazine is worth it. The “Psychology of Money” feature in...
Small Enough to Jail, Strong Enough to Resist
Small Enough to Jail, Strong Enough to Resist A documentary premiering this week in New York features a community bank that not only stood up for what’s right against overwhelming...
Study Affirms Community Banks’ Small-Biz Leadership
Study Affirms Community Banks’ Small-Biz Leadership It’s something ICBA and the community banking industry say all the time: community banks are the nation’s leading small-business lenders. And the...
A Voice That Must Be Heard
A Voice That Must Be Heard “You say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and then again and again and again and again, and about the...
Standing Up to a Reckless Regulator
Standing Up to a Reckless Regulator Every now and then we have the chance to stand up for what’s right against powerful forces. As the legacy of a group of colonists who stared down and defeated...
A New Source of Legal Trolling
A New Source of Legal Trolling Predatory plaintiff’s attorneys have found a new source of legal exploitation to hound community banks and other small businesses with legal threats: the Americans...
Wells Fargo: Still Not a Community Bank
Wells Fargo: Still Not a Community Bank Apparently Wells Fargo isn’t content to tarnish its own reputation—it has the gall to try to hide behind the sterling reputation of the nation’s...
A Convention to Remember
A Convention to Remember We’re just a few short weeks away from next month’s ICBA Community Banking LIVE® national convention—the biggest show in community banking in the world! And to top it...
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...
ICBA Brief Offers Latest on Tax Reform Debate
ICBA Brief Offers Latest on Tax Reform Debate To give community bankers the lay of the land on the fast-paced and fluctuating tax reform debate, ICBA released a new informational brief with the...