The Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund today announced $18 million in funding for the 2015 Bank Enterprise Awards, which encourage banks to increase their investments and loans in disadvantaged communities.
ABA invites entries for the 2015 Community Commitment Awards, which recognize and promote the essential role banks play in their communities.
First Financial Bank in Abilene, Texas, tackles the “epidemic” of elder financial abuse.
Speaking at an industry event in Washington, D.C., today, Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo floated an idea originated by ABA and the state bankers associations to relieve compliance burdens associated with capital rules. “One idea I have heard is to allow smaller community banks to opt into a simpler set of risk-weighted capital requirements in
The OCC reported today that the loan growth rate continued to accelerate in the nine-state Southern District, which spans from Texas to Georgia, growing to 8 percent in 2014 from 4 percent in 2013.
Frank Keating asks the FDIC chairman’s views on the future of community banking, cybersecurity threats, regulatory burden, too-big-to-fail and more.
The 2008 financial crisis was eerily similar to the economic panic into which ABA was born in 1875. Evan Sparks explores why.
ABA’s “Excellence in Advocacy” honorees are going above and beyond to get out the message of the banking industry.
In the first four months of the 114th Congress, 28 ABA-supported bills have been introduced, ABA bankers and staff have testified before Congress four times, the Federal Reserve finalized an ABA-advocated rule change helping smaller banks and ABA Chairman John Ikard participated in President Obama’s cybersecurity summit.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and ABA President and CEO Frank Keating visited Drew Model School in Arlington, Va., on Friday for Teach Children to Save Day.