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ICBA Outlines Its Regulatory Aims for 2013
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) has announced its top legislative and regulatory priorities for the coming year. ICBA made the announcement in Las Vegas at the 2013 National...
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ICBA Aware of Threat From Too-Big-to-Fail Businesses
Bill Loving, chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and president and CEO of Pendleton Community Bank in Franklin, W.Va., and Camden R. Fine, president and CEO of ICBA,...
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More Than Half of Those Surveyed Wants to Eliminate Too-Big-to-Fail Institutions
Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) Chairman Bill Loving, president and CEO of Pendleton Community Bank in Franklin, W.Va., has released this statement following the release of a Rasmussen...
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Sens. Brown and Vitter Seek to Stamp Out Too-Big-to-Fail Institutions
U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) have announced a new plan, the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act (TBTF Act), that would prevent any one financial institution from...
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Study Finds CFPB Needs to Further Protect Consumers
Many residents in rural America would have reduced access to mortgage credit despite accommodations included in new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) mortgage rules, according to survey...
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ICBA Continues to Mount Evidence Against Too-Big-To-Fail Businesses
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) recently said that there is mounting evidence that too-big-to-fail financial institutions pose risks to the financial system, enjoy a taxpayer-funded...
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CFPB Amends Ability-to-Repay Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized rules to facilitate access to credit by creating specific exemptions and modifications to the CFPB’s Ability-to-Repay rule for small...
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ICBA Lobbies for Continued Access for Community Banks to Secondary Market
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) told Congress during the hearing, “Housing Finance Reform: Protecting Small Lender Access to the Secondary Mortgage Market,” that continued community...
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Yellen Welcomed to the New Realm of QM, QE and All Things in Between
"If you were dreaming up a training school for Fed chairmen, it would be her life story," joked Princeton economist Alan Blinder, Janet Yellen’s former colleague at the Fed in a National Journal...
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ICBA Nominates 2014-2015 Leadership
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) has announced the nominees for its 2014-15 executive committee. ICBA’s board of directors will vote on the nominations during the 2014 ICBA National...
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Bill Passed by Senate to Preserve Rural Housing
The Agricultural Act of 2014 (HR 2642), approved by the Senate and the House last week, includes an important provision championed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) that will enable...
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