American Bankers Association

Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.

The brief supporting field of membership expansion — in the face of a lawsuit by the American Bankers Association — is a sign of continued collaboration between CUNA and NAFCU.

The accounting board has scheduled a meeting that bankers hope will produce eleventh-hour modifications to reserving requirements.

The trade group filed a brief backing an effort by the American Bankers Association to push back against the NCUA's planned revisions to field-of-membership regulation.

The ICBA has filed a supporting brief to the American Banker's Association's FOM suit against NCUA, but a rapid decision is unlikely, and the case has already dragged on longer than the bankers' MBL suit.

A controversial bank merger in Kansas City is likely to catch the eyes of credit union watchers as NCUA considers new rulemaking surrounding disclosures of incentives offered to board members and executives at merging CUs.

Former Inter-State Federal account holders believe they were shortchanged by the Missouri mutual's merger. A ruling in their favor could give depositors more power and could undermine what it means to be a mutual.

Federal regulators are early in the process of deciding whether to broaden credit unions' access to capital markets, but banking lobbyists have seen enough to argue that it would let credit unions skirt business-lending limits.

The comment period on NCUA's notice of proposed rulemaking on alternative capital ended last week, and judging by the letters, another battle is brewing.

Fintech firms, banks, state regulators and consumer protection groups all expressed significant reservations about the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's latest plan on its fintech charter initiative.