Advocacy Starts Locally
Jay Jenkins’ recipe for advocacy success: start early, engage locally and keep it bipartisan.
Community Banking
Fed’s Powell: Some Post-Crisis Regs ‘Unnecessarily Burdensome’
Noting that the U.S. financial system is “without a doubt far stronger” than it was before the crisis, Federal Reserve...
Hensarling’s Choice Act Includes Key ABA Priorities
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) today released the latest legislative text of his Financial Choice Act, a...
ABA Submits Bipartisan Economic Growth Ideas to Crapo, Brown
ABA today urged the leaders of the Senate Banking Committee to focus on expanding portfolio mortgage lending, modernizing rules on...
Fed Survey: Small Biz Performance, Loan Applications Tick Down
Small business performance and financing success rates dipped slightly in 2016, according to the latest Small Business Credit Survey released...
A Handcrafted Banking Turnaround
How Blaine Jackson helped save a North Carolina community bank and rebuild its connection with customers and investors.
Fed’s Esther George Takes Aim at Basel III, Appraisal Rules for Community Banks
Speaking to a community bank conference in New York yesterday, Esther George -- president and CEO of the Federal Reserve...
ABA Community Bankers Meet with Mnuchin, Top Treasury Leaders
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his leadership team today hosted a diverse group of community bankers to discuss unnecessary and...
FDIC: Minority Banks Lag in Profits, Outpace in Loan Growth
The 157 FDIC-insured minority depository institutions tend to lag community banks overall in terms of profitability, but the sector is...
FDIC Report Highlights Best Practices for Teaching Financial Literacy
The FDIC today released a report outlining effective strategies for promoting savings among young people, based on the experiences of...
