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ABA: Foundation Launches 2025 Financial Education Campaigns Amid 100th Anniversary Celebration

The American Bankers Association Foundation today launched its 2025 financial education campaigns, encouraging banks across the country and their more than two million employees to participate in these substantial industry efforts. Today’s launch comes as the ABA Foundation celebrates a pivotal milestone this year – its 100th anniversary helping bankers provide financial education to improve…

ABA: Foundation and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Release New Infographics for Consumers and Businesses on Money Mules, Check Fraud

Identification and prevention tips part of ongoing awareness campaign to help individuals and small businesses avoid scams perpetrated through the U.S. mail The American Bankers Association Foundation and the United States Postal Inspection Service today released two new infographics on money mule scams and check fraud as part of their shared ongoing initiatives to protect…

SBA: New MySBA Digital Experience Outlined to Transform How Business Owners Interact with SBA

New MySBA Experience Builds on SBA’s Efforts to Transform Customers’ Experiences with the Agency via Innovative Digital Tools Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 34 million small businesses, is celebrating the culmination of the SBA’s efforts to transform customers’ experiences…

FDIC: Millennium Bank, Des Plaines, IL Assumes All Deposits of Pulaski Savings Bank, Chicago, IL

Pulaski Savings Bank of Chicago, Ill. was closed today by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Millennium Bank of Des Plaines, Ill., to assume all deposits of Pulaski Savings Bank.  The…

SBA: Small Business Community Lending Network Strengthened in Underserved Communities

New Community Advantage Small Business Lending Companies Bring More Funding to Main Street and Rural America Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s more than 34 million small businesses, announced additions to the Community Advantage Small Business Lending Company (CA SBLC) program. The…

HUD: FHA Options Updated to Help Homeowners Keep Their Homes

Revised Federal Housing Administration loss mitigation waterfall includes updates to tools for mortgage servicers helping borrowers who fall behind on their mortgage payments. Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through its Federal Housing Administration (FHA), announced an updated set of permanent options for mortgage servicers to help borrowers with FHA-insured single-family mortgages keep…

ABA: Key Policy Priorities Unveiled in Newly Released 2025 Blueprint for Growth

With the pending change in administration and the start of the 119th Congress, the American Bankers Association today released its 2025 Blueprint for Growth outlining ABA’s top policy priorities for 2025. As the voice of the nation’s banking industry, and the only trade association representing banks of all sizes, charters and business models, the Blueprint for Growth…

Federal Reserve: Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks Announced for 2025

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the designation of the Chairs and Deputy Chairs of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for 2025. Each Reserve Bank has a nine-member board of directors. The Board of Governors in Washington appoints three of these directors and each year designates one of its appointees as Chair and a…

ABA: ABA and BAFT Announce Plans for Separation in 2025

The American Bankers Association (ABA) and BAFT, the leading global financial services association for international transaction banking and an ABA subsidiary, today announced their mutually agreed upon plans to separate in the second half of 2025.  While ABA and BAFT have worked together successfully since 2002, BAFT’s global footprint and overseas opportunities have expanded in…

HUD: Financing Flexibility Increased for Multifamily Affordable Housing Development

Updates to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Multifamily Mortgage Insurance helps lenders and developers increase the supply of affordable rental housing in America. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), announced updated requirements for several of its multifamily mortgage insurance programs. During the Biden-Harris Administration, FHA has prioritized…