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October 2025
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October 20, 2025
Treasury secretary details policies to boost community bank model
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week shared several steps the Trump administration plans to take to drive a “community bank comeback,” including a renewed push for regulatory tailoring, a review of core platform providers, friendlier capital requirements and revised requirements for bank anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism programs. Bessent, speaking at the Federal Reserve’s Community Bank Conference on Wednesday, …
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October 17, 2025
Fed announces expanded operating days of payment services
The Federal Reserve announced last week that Fedwire Funds Service and National Settlement Service operations will be expanded to include Sundays and weekday holidays. The expansion will be implemented over several years, “no earlier than 2028 to ensure operational and industry readiness.” Both FedWire and NSS currently operate Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Following the expansion, both services will run …
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October 16, 2025
SBA releases compliance form for debanking order
Last week, the Small Business Administration sent out another letter with criteria for banks under $30 billion in assets to comply with reporting requirements regarding the president’s “Fair Banking Executive Order.” The revised requirements are less burdensome then originally presented. When it was initially presented, it sure looked like bankers were going to have to spend a lot of time …
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October 1, 2025
Four inductees to make up 2025 class of Oklahoma Bankers Hall of Fame
The Oklahoma Bankers Hall of Fame announced today the four bankers who will be inducted into its 2025 class later this year. R.S. “Brud” Baker, Sandy Bracken, Gary Huckabay and Lee Symcox will make up the 2025 class. The inductees were selected by a panel of bankers from across the state, and were voted on late last week. The induction ceremony will be …
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September 2025
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September 29, 2025
OCC to divide supervisory functions by bank size
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will split its bank supervision and examination division into three distinct units based on bank size, the agency announced last week. The move reverses a decision earlier this year by OCC’s previous leadership to combine its midsize and community bank supervision and its large bank supervision departments into a single entity. Starting Oct. …
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Jeremy Cowen, Senior Vice President/Communications
Email: jeremy@oba.com | Phone: Ext. 113
Jeremy has been in charge of the Oklahoma Banker newspaper as well as the OBA website and other member communications since joining the OBA in January 2002. A native of Hartshorne and a 1997 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, he enjoys meeting and talking with the different people he encounters while doing his job. Previously, Jeremy worked as a sports writer in Lawton and, for the four years prior to joining the OBA, Lubbock, Texas, where he decided the town wasn’t big enough for both him and Bobby Knight. When not working, Jeremy loves to hike, read, watch football, baseball and boxing and teach journalism to high school and college students. And, if you ask, there’s a good chance he will regale you with the story about being interviewed on ESPN by Chris Fowler.