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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Big Banks' Swaps Push-Out Repeal Is a Pyrrhic Victory
Big Banks' Swaps Push-Out Repeal Is a Pyrrhic Victory The following post first appeared on American Banker’s BankThink blog. It is reprinted below with American Banker’s permission. By Cornelius...
Doing the Right Thing is in the Community Bank DNA
Doing the Right Thing is in the Community Bank DNA Happy 2015. I am humbled and grateful for the opportunity to kick off another year representing the nation’s community banks, an industry that has...
Some Banks More Equal Than Others
Some Banks More Equal Than Others I read the other day that the six largest U.S. bank holding companies have paid more than $150 billion in fines since 2009. Yet, at the same time, not a single...