Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

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. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Community Bank Community Industry Texas 239

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

These institutions would connect other public entities to financing, reports explained, so they can fuel various projects to support the local community. According to reports, the nation’s only public bank currently operates in North Dakota, and was established in 1919.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Outsized regulation shapes the business climate and decisions. Far more than any other issue, regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge community bankers experienced in 2015, with 43 percent naming it as such in ICBA’s State of the Community Banking Industry survey. By Denise Logeland. And Center, N.D.,

North Dakota 70

North Dakota Community Bank Community Compliance 70

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Talk about your captive regulator! Last month the NCUA’s sweeping, 167-page proposal to hand federal credit unions virtually unlimited freedom to serve almost any person of any means anywhere rightly drew an avalanche of letters from infuriated community bankers. When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. A pretty clear-cut sizzle.

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Lending Online South Dakota North Dakota 101

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Bravo April!

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Community Fintech Industry Innovation 216