Clay Ewing is president and chief banking officer of a community bank with a name that reflects its heritage -- but German American Bank is well ahead in developing a well-rounded community bank model that thrives.

President Trump on Friday issued an executive order requiring the Treasury and Labor Departments to consider amendments to rules affecting retirement accounts, including employer plans and individual retirement accounts.

Two-thirds of consumers who use nonbank fintech apps are extremely concerned or very concerned about data privacy, according to a recent survey conducted for the Clearing House.

In a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission today, ABA offered feedback on the SEC’s proposal to implement a “best interest” standard of conduct for broker-dealers when making recommendations on securities transactions or investment strategies to retail customers. The SEC’s proposal would represent a different approach from the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule, which was vacated earlier this year ...

In a recent notice, the Internal Revenue Service released guidance clarifying that trustee and executor fees may continue to be deducted from a trust or estate’s income after the new tax reform law suspended the deduction of miscellaneous itemized deductions for by individual, trust and estate taxpayers.

For Jim Edwards, a third-generation banker and the chairman and CEO of United Bank Corp. in Zebulon, Ga., community banking is about providing a "high-touch" experience.

The Department of Labor today announced a temporary enforcement policy on prohibited transaction rules applicable to investment advice fiduciaries. 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked third-party efforts to appeal its March ruling that vacated the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule in its entirety.

An ABA Banking Journal special feature.