As House Financial Services Committee members continue preparing a much-anticipated long-term reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said today that she is focusing on affordability of NFIP premiums.
Like it or not, medical banking is here and growing where other features of banking are simply stagnant.
Kristie Holoch’s bank is not just in the business of serving farmers, families and small businesses in the 33 Nebraska towns where it has branches — it also serves its fellow Nebraska community banks.
From HMDA to CRA and from fair lending to anti-money laundering, 2019 promises to be a busy year in the world of compliance.
The American Bankers Association last week urged the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to provide a safe harbor for banks and their affiliates in the insurance distribution business in its “suitability in annuity transactions” model law.
The financial regulatory agencies last Friday released a final rule governing the acceptance of private flood insurance.
The National Council of Insurance Legislators recently met in Oklahoma City and approved a unanimous bipartisan resolution supportive of policies that preserve health savings account access.
The rapid pace of change will continue in 2019, ABA policy staff project.
Effective immediately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will allow operations of the National Flood Insurance Program to resume, even while the government remains partially shut down, the agency announced today.
In an unanticipated move yesterday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it will halt regular National Flood Insurance Program operations during the government shutdown, a decision that will complicate and potentially delay loan closings for borrowers seeking mortgages where NFIP coverage is required.