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OCC Announces Assessment Rate Cuts Targeting Community Banks
The OCC will reduce assessment rates on OCC-chartered community banks by 40% starting next year, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu announced. Effective March 2023, the OCC will make a 40% reduction in assessments for OCC-chartered banks’ first $200...
Bankers Helping Bankers
––– PRESS RELEASE BELOW ––– The Montana Independent Bankers Association Offers Access to Bankers Helping Bankers for Its Member Banks in Montana Press Release-Dec 16, 2021 08:00 CST Bankers Helping Bankers platform and forum for community banks.\"> HELENA, Mont.,...
New ICBA video: Call for credit union hearings
https://youtu.be/EJo7Tolnsug
Community banks must engage customers on new IRS reporting mandates
By Rebeca Romero Rainey If community bankers weren’t busy enough continuing their heroic economic response to the pandemic, a recent proposal to impose new IRS reporting mandates on customer bank accounts has become a major advocacy priority. To counter the plan,...
Dory A. Wiley, Fox News Contributor to speak at Montana Independent Bankers Convention
Dory A. Wiley, President & CEO LLC, the holding company for Commerce Street Capital, LLC ("CSC"), a FINRA-member broker/dealer and Commerce Street Investment Management, LLC ("CSIM"), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Since co-founding the firm in 2007,...
Operational risk resources to help community banks stay secure amid cyberattacks
By Joel Williquette In the wake of the high-profile cyberattacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline affecting national security and the everyday lives of Americans, cybersecurity has never been a more pressing concern to community banks. Fortunately, ICBA...
Robert Fisher: Lead with integrity
One of my early mentors told me, ‘It’s often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.’ That piece of advice has … allowed us to be a little more progressive as a bank. Leading a family-owned community bank offers a lot of opportunities,...
How A Small Montana Bank Became A Big Payroll Protection Program Lender
The economic downturn from COVID-19 has pummeled main street businesses, but the Payroll Protection Program loans of the Cares Act have saved hundreds of thousands of them. On April 3, 2020, the first day of the first round of PPP loans, the number one lender in the...
CSBS Elects Montana’s Melanie Hall as Chair
Washington, D.C. – The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) today announced the election of Montana Commissioner of Banking and Financial Institutions Melanie Hall as the new chair of the CSBS Board of Directors. CSBS also elected new officers for...
Crypto Chronicles: Bitcoin 101 for Community Bankers
The payments industry is abuzz with excitement as one topic continues capturing headlines, with profound implications for community banks: Bitcoin. As the original digital currency, Bitcoin has steadily climbed from obscurity to reach a total market capitalization of...