December 18, 2022

The 2022 KBA Trust Conference occurred Oct. 20-21 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manhattan. Brian Dutton, KBA Trust Division President from Community National Bank & Trust in Winfield, welcomed all attendees to the Conference and introduced the first speaker, Michael Stillitano, from JP Morgan.

In an American Banker op-ed earlier this year, I called out the CFPB under the leadership of Rohit Chopra as a “regulator gone rogue.” I’m not alone in my criticism: in September, 12 Republican lawmakers took the bureau to task over what they called a “radical and highly-politicized agenda unbounded by
statutory limits.”

Mike Ewy, KBA Past Chairman and President and CEO of Community State Bank in Coffeyville, kicked off day one of the 2022 Annual Conference for Lenders, which was held Oct. 6-7 at the Marriott Hotel in Wichita.

On Sept. 28, 2022, a coalition of banking and business groups filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Rohit Chopra in his capacity as Director of the Bureau.

Members of the KBA Federal Affairs Committee, KBA officer, and KBA Bank Leaders of Kansas (BLOK) classes from 2020-2021 and 2022 spent several days­ — Sept. 19-23 — in our nation’s capital to lobby Kansas’ members of Congress and to visit with Federal banking regulators about issues of importance to the banking industry. The group included two BLOK classes and the 2020-2021 BLOK class could finally attend despite the pandemic’s best efforts to keep them home!