New video shows banker impact on Congress

New Four-Minute Video Highlights

Friends of Traditional Banking's Impact

Click on the image below or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MoznO160rg to see ten years of growth and which candidates we supported!

Friends of Traditional Banking: 10 Years of Impact

Proposals to Expand

Credit Unions Must Die

We are alarmed by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)'s bill to allow credit unions to expand out-of-market and also create a major new loophole in the credit union business lending cap. This bill, H.R. 7003 "Expanding Financial Access for Underserved Communities Act,” fortunately only has one co-sponsor at this point, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and FOTB will be watching closely to see if other members of Congress jump on this misguided legislation.

FOTB appreciates the American Bankers Association and state banker associations from every state (including all FOTB Advisory Council members) taking a strong stand against this bad bill earlier this month. We also appreciate the Independent Community Bankers of America for calling on bankers to write their Congressman about the problems with credit union expansion.

Corey Hoze to rep Wisconsin on

FOTB Banker Board

Corey Hoze has accepted an appointment to Friends of Traditional Banking's Nationwide Banker Board, representing the state of Wisconsin. One of FOTB's three key leadership boards, the Banker Board will play an important role in selecting and promoting this year's endorsed Congressional candidates.

Hoze is senior vice president of government relations and regulatory affairs for Associated Banc-Corp, one of the top 50 publicly traded U.S. bank holding companies. He is responsible for planning, directing, and executing government relations and regulatory affairs efforts that build and sustain a favorable external environment for the achievement of Associated’s business objectives. He has degrees in economics and religion from Pepperdine University and a law degree from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

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Dos and Don'ts When it Comes to

Employees and Social Media

A message from our sponsor BankOnITUSA:

Even if they aren’t posting to social media sites during work hours, bank employees are likely active online outside the business day, and what they react to, share, and say from their accounts can reflect on the business they work within. And in some instances, the information employees broadcast over social media might even unintentionally expose an institution to compliance risk or compromise operations and security.

That’s why it’s imperative for employees of banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions to be mindful of best practices for social media in both personal and professional settings. In our full article HERE is a list of ten dos and don’ts.

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Friends of Traditional Banking is a non-partisan grassroots effort organized by bankers in 2012 to improve the political and regulatory environment for the traditional banking industry in the U.S. FOTB is the inverse of a PAC--instead of spreading a little bit of money to a lot of campaigns, they focus a lot of money on a couple of key campaigns.