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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Washington Watch

Independent Banker

Absent Congress actively changing the law, however, the Supreme Court has issued a decisive opinion that sets an important precedent on the disparate-impact issue for community banks and the rest of the financial services industry. The case in question— Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. ICBA president and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey, Washington, D.C.

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

PYMNTS

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank.

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The Time Is Now

Independent Banker

Happy New Year, fellow community bankers! This upcoming year has a lot of good in store for our industry, because ICBA continues to pursue even more successes for community banks nationwide. We certainly closed out 2015 with great wins in Washington, so I want to thank so many of you who stepped up to make change happen last year.

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Let’s Put a Stop to Credit Union End Run Around Congress

Finer Points

The tax-exempt credit union industry apparently skipped this civics lesson because it obviously doesn’t believe it should have to listen to Congress. The National Credit Union Administration has proposed dramatically revising business-lending rules for these tax-subsidized institutions. Current […].

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Advocacy: Election Returns

Independent Banker

Around the Table—Wisconsin community bankers work with legislative staff members on Capitol Hill during ICBA’s Washington Policy Summit. Keeping community banking interests front and center. Here’s an outline of the key activities ICBA’s advocacy team in Washington, D.C., By Courtney Schoenborn. 1233 and S.