The FDIC, Federal Reserve, and OCC released an interagency proposed rule to strengthen capital standards on the largest banks and explicitly said they would not apply to community banks.
The latest episode of ICBA’s “Independent Banker” podcast features community bankers from Independent Banker magazine’s lists of 2023’s top community bank lenders.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a new Supervisory Highlights report on unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices across various consumer financial products.
The Treasury, Commerce, and Justice departments issued a joint compliance note focusing on voluntary self-disclosure policies that apply to U.S. sanctions, export controls, and other national security laws.
ICBA’s support for the FDIC’s proposed special assessment exemption for community banks illustrates its unique mission, ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey wrote in a new blog post.
With the House Financial Services Committee slated to take up an ICBA-advocated resolution to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Section 1071 rule, ICBA called on the committee to pass the measure.
Community bankers responded in force to ICBA’s grassroots advocacy campaign supporting the FDIC’s proposal to exempt community banks under $5 billion in assets from its special assessment.
With Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) working to attach credit card routing restrictions to the National Defense Authorization Act, ICBA this week is promoting its new polling results showing voters oppose the policy change.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its fair lending annual report to Congress describing its fair lending enforcement priorities and statistics.
ICBA community banker Thomas Fraser—CEO of First Mutual Holding Co. in Lakewood, Ohio—testified on deposit insurance reform before the Senate Banking Committee on behalf of his banks.
