The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published its "Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans," rule in today's Federal Register.

ICBA President and CEO Camden R. Fine issued a statement on today’s House passage of the pro-growth Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1).

ICBA President and CEO Camden R. Fine issued a statement on Joseph Otting’s confirmation as comptroller of the currency.

Greenville, South Carolina – November 14, 2017 – Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFST), holding company for Southern First Bank, announces its expansion to Atlanta, Georgia and the Buckhead and North Atlanta market. The Bank is operating as a full service office in Two Lenox Tower, temporarily, and will relocate to its permanent location in early 2018 on the ground floor of 309 East Paces Ferry Road (formerly known as the Aaron’s Rents building), in the heart of the Buckhead business district.

The Independent Community Bankers of America announced the following staff promotions, which go into effect immediately.

Boiling Springs Savings Bank, which has provided sound financial services to individuals and businesses for nearly 80 years, and grown to become one of northern New Jersey’s largest savings banks, has achieved a major charitable milestone with its popular, award-winning Community Alliance Program (CAP). Offering customers cost-free ways to support their favorite local non-profits, the program recently surpassed the impressive $3 million mark in terms of overall donations.

Bank of McKenney (“McKenney”) (OTC Pink: BOMK) and CCB Bankshares, Inc. (“CCB”) (OTC Pink: CZYB), parent company of Citizens Community Bank, announce receipt of regulatory approvals from the Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission and The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for the previously announced proposed merger of equals between the two banks.

Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) President and CEO Camden R. Fine issued the following statement on today’s congressional testimony from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt.