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What’s on the banking industry’s policy radar for 2023? ABA’s Government Relations Council recently met in Washington, D.C., and GRC Chair Cathy Owen recaps the topics of consideration as the association prepares its banker-led Blueprint for Growth for the coming year.
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The advantages of committing to a single platform to integrate delivery of multiple banking services for businesses.
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An impressive 700 banks registered for ABA Foundation programs in 2022, ranging in topics from fraud prevention to educating youth about financial stewardship, according to a new infographic summarizing the foundation’s accomplishments during the year.
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Prioritizing a smooth customer experience while protecting against attacks.
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Providing transparency and demystifying banking’s unique key performance indicators can help banks seize competitive advantages.
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The average financial well-being of U.S. consumers has returned to its pre-pandemic level, with more families reporting having difficulty paying all their bills in 2022 than the year before, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s annual Making Ends Meet survey.
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Retailer-backed legislation creating new credit card routing mandates was left out of a bipartisan omnibus spending bill after a sustained grassroots campaign by ABA and state banking associations warned lawmakers about the risks community banks faced had the proposal become law.
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The Treasury Department issued initial guidance regarding a new annual excise tax that applies to repurchases of a publicly traded corporation’s stock that takes place after Dec. 31, 2022.
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ABA expressed opposition to the Small Business Administration’s proposal to lift the moratorium on the number of non-depository lenders in the 7(a) program in a comment letter submitted this week.
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ABA and five financial and health care industry associations have expressed support for a Federal Trade Commission proposal to prohibit the impersonation of government, businesses and their officials.
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Federal banking agencies have extended by one year no-action relief under Regulation O for banks lending to investment fund-controlled companies under specific conditions.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced the 2023 dollar amounts for the annual threshold adjustments for Regulation Z, which implements the Truth in Lending Act.
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January 9 - February 3, 2023 Facilitated Training: Building a Bank-Wide Data Management Program
January 9 - February 3, 2023 Facilitated Training: Marketing in Banking
January 12, 2023 Webinar: The 2023 Fraud Landscape
January 18, 2023 Webinar: Regulatory Updates and Compliance Challenges in 2023 — Part 1
January 19, 2023 Webinar: Banking Digital Currency
January 23 - February 24, 2023 Facilitated Training: Managing Funding, Liquidity and Capital
January 25, 2023 Webinar: 2023 Investment Market Outlook and How to Guide Clients Through Changes
January 29 - February 1, 2023 Conference: Insurance Risk Management Forum
January 30 - May 19, 2023 Facilitated Training: Money and Banking
January 31, 2023 Webinar: Digitizing Investigations: Adding Robotics and Machine Learning to FCC Investigations
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