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The OCC issued responses to frequently asked questions on its proposal to rescind its June 2020 Community Reinvestment Act rule and replace it with interagency rules adopted in 1995.

ICBA expressed support for a Senate companion bill to block the widely opposed IRS reporting proposal.

While ICBA urges community bankers to renew their opposition to Washington’s IRS reporting proposal by calling lawmakers and urging consumer outreach, ICBA Chairman Robert Fisher is set to testify today on why tweaks to the plan won’t quell the opposition

ICBA is hosting a complimentary one-hour webinar at 11 a.m. (Eastern time) tomorrow, Oct. 26, to provide ICBA members with foundational knowledge of central bank digital currencies.

With the banking system experiencing a lack of de novo formation in the past decade, policymakers must avoid adding regulatory burdens on community banks, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said.

The FDIC adopted an ICBA-supported final rule amending real estate lending standards for supervisory loan-to-value limits to incorporate the Community Bank Leverage Ratio rule.

ICBA’s campaign against Washington’s IRS reporting proposal demands that community bankers increase their grassroots outreach through calls and messages to Capitol Hill, ICBA’s Jack Coleman writes in a new blog post.

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) became the first Democratic member of Congress to publicly express concerns with the ICBA-opposed IRS reporting proposal.

The National Credit Union Administration approved an ICBA-opposed rule expanding credit union service organizations' permissible services and activities to include anything federal credit unions can currently do.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a series of orders to collect information on the business practices of large U.S. tech companies that operate payments systems.

ICBA announced its ICBA LIVE 2022 national convention is scheduled for Feb. 27-March 3 in San Antonio.

ICBA advocated updates to bipartisan legislation that would create a cyber incident reporting regime to avoid excessive burdens on community banks.