The House Financial Services Committee today voted to advance the Financial Choice Act, Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) sweeping, 600-page bill aimed at reforming parts of the Dodd-Frank Act’s extensive supervisory regime and providing regulatory relief for banks.

Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) yesterday introduced the Community Lending Enhancement and Regulatory Relief Act (S. 1002), a package of financial regulatory relief measures targeted at community banks.

Let your bank's narrative define your capital-raising and deployment strategies.

Bankers didn’t create the student debt crisis. But they can help in ways that provided targeted support to employees and customers alike.

Innovative lenders and their community partners are scaling a resident-ownership model where homeowners in manufactured home communities can become community owners of the land on which their homes resides.

From finding local talent to fitting new regulations onto longstanding relationships, rural bank CEOs are often on the frontiers of compliance.

By Max Cook “Segs4Vets gave me my life back.” This statement from Army veteran Chris Stout echoes similar sentiments of U.S. veterans who have benefited from Segs4Vets, a nonprofit organization that gives Segway mobile transporters to severely injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Launched in 2005, the organization’s mission is to help veterans choose the path of independence ...

Successful, diverse companies no doubt have an easier time attracting both talent and customers. As community leaders, our industry must embrace such a competitive differentiator. And in so doing—by comparison—become rare in our diversity rather than have our diversity be rare.

Nearly 11,500 bankers will host financial education events across the country this week in recognition of Teach Children to Save Day today.

Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) yesterday introduced the ABA-advocated CLEARR Act (H.R. 2133), which would provide relief from certain rules and regulations for community banks.