More than 9,800 bankers hosted financial education events across the country this week in celebration of Teach Children to Save Day today. Since 1997, this ABA financial education initiative has reached 10.5 million children with the help of more than 260,000 banker volunteers.(ABA Banking Journal)

Community lenders say their tech providers aren’t always helping them compete, in this article examining the challenges that many community banks face when working with their core processors to implement new technologies and remain competitive with larger institutions. (Wall Street Journal)

With $1.7 billion in assets, Nebraska's Cornerstone Bank offers a correspondent banking division, a data center to handle core processing for two dozen smaller banks, loan participations that enhance the balance sheet of small community banks—and even an armored car service. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, Cornerstone's Kristie Holoch discusses how the bank partners with community banks. (ABA Banking Journal)

A community bank turns a business convenience into a source of data that deepens the commercial customer relationship. (ABA Banking Journal)

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman expressed concern that regulatory complexities and compliance issues could be hindering community banks’ approach to innovation. In remarks at a recent event at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, she offered her thoughts on steps the agency could take to foster innovation and collaboration between community banks and fintech firms. (ABA Banking Journal)

ABA has joined more than 100 trade organizations in a letter of support for H.R. 216, the Main Street Tax Certainty Act of 2019—a bipartisan bill that would make permanent a provision of the 2017 tax reform law enacting a 20 percent deduction for certain qualified business income received from pass-through entities such as partnerships or businesses operating under a Subchapter S election. (ABA Banking Journal)