Community Focus 2020: The Community Bank Agenda for Expanding Economic Opportunity
ACB & ICBA Top Priorities for 2020
Community Focus 2020: The Community Bank
Agenda for Expanding Economic Opportunity is a multifaceted agenda that
advocates for common-sense reforms that will promote greater access to
financial services and economic opportunity throughout local communities
nationwide.
Community banks are well-positioned to support greater economic
opportunity for all Americans. Serving the nation’s rural, suburban and
urban communities with more than 52,000 locations, community banks are
critical to ensuring that every local community can join in the nation’s
broad economic prosperity. ICBA, community bankers, along with state associations including ACB, developed
Community Focus 2020 to advance a more efficient system of regulation,
unbiased laws governing the financial sector, a safer and more secure
business environment, and more effective agriculture policies to extend
the nation’s economic growth to every corner of the country.
Community Focus 2020 includes policy prescriptions on the following issue areas: