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Strategic Planning Reimagined
Like many of today’s processes in banking, strategic planning is undergoing a dramatic shift. One of the core responsibilities of a bank board is to approve, support, and monitor its strategic plan.
The Federal Reserve’s Essential Role in Faster Payments
The Federal Reserve’s Essential Role in Faster Payments ICBA's Cary Whaley explains why the Federal Reserve must play a leadership role in faster payments to ensure safety, integrity, continuity...
How the Fed Can Stop a Megabank Monopoly
How the Fed Can Stop a Megabank Monopoly A Fed-operated real-time settlement system is needed to ensure universal access and to promote future payments innovations. By Rebeca Romero Rainey As the...
Main Street Victory on Faster Payments
Main Street Victory on Faster Payments After years of ICBA-led advocacy on behalf of a real-time payments system that ensures access and choice for community banks, the Federal Reserve has...
Where Does Your Community Bank Fall on the Digital Payments Spectrum?
Where Does Your Community Bank Fall on the Digital Payments Spectrum? Payments Executive Brief Issue 1 For a printable PDF of this issue, click here. By Tina Giorgio Use the ICBA Bancard Digital...
Value of the FedNow Service for Community Banks
Value of the FedNow Service for Community Banks The Federal Reserve’s development of the FedNow Service provides the opportunity for all banks—both large and small—to capitalize on the...
Digital Payments: Defining Opportunities for Community Banks
Digital Payments: Defining Opportunities for Community Banks The payments landscape continues to evolve. Whereas checks and cash were the dominant payments instruments 40 years ago, today digital...
Community Banks Can Directly Influence the Future of Faster Payments
Community Banks Can Directly Influence the Future of Faster Payments Today, faster payments are changing the overall payments landscape. With the advent of Same Day ACH, The Clearing House’s...