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Research into behavioral economics has generated insights on how consumers make decisions, which can help community banks meet the needs of customers, according to the latest issue of Independent Banker magazine.

ICBA urged members of the House Ways and Means Committee Tax Teams to advance several community banking industry tax initiatives as they craft priorities for tax legislation in 2025.

ICBA encourages community bankers interested in providing oral comments at federal regulators’ virtual public outreach meeting on banking regulations to register by this Friday’s deadline.

The Federal Housing Administration published a final rule to update a HUD regulation that requires mortgagees to meet in person with borrowers who are in default on their mortgage payments.

Federal financial regulators requested comment on a proposed rule that would establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to the agencies.

ICBA told the Federal Communications Commission that Weiss Ratings is ill-suited for use as a gatekeeper for certain FCC programs.

ICBA encourages community bankers interested in providing oral comments at federal regulators’ virtual public outreach meeting on banking regulations to register by this Friday’s deadline.

The OCC issued a proclamation allowing national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches to close offices in areas of Florida and Georgia affected by Hurricane Debby.

Requiring “buy now, pay later” digital user accounts to comply with the billing error resolution process in Regulation Z could provide community banks relief, ICBA told the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Federal banking regulators formally issued their second request for comment under the latest Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act regulatory review.

Fraudsters are increasingly using information gained from public record searches on recorded mortgages to create checks drawn on home equity lines of credit, ICBA’s Rebeca Romero Rainey shared in a message to community bankers this week.

Fraudsters are increasingly using information gained from public record searches on recorded mortgages to create checks drawn on home equity lines of credit, ICBA told community bankers.