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ICBA members carry the views of community banking far and wide
Community bankers across the country wear many hats. They are active in their communities and sit on the boards of local organizations. But many community bankers are taking their service-minded ways to the national level through their participation in ICBA.
ICBA members serve on a number of key government and industry panels. They provide greater community representation into the Federal Home Loan Bank System. They represent community bank views in the development of the payments system. They shape national monetary policy. And they help maintain community bank access to the secondary mortgage market.
Chuck Doyle, chairman of Texas First Bank-Texas City, and a former ICBA president, is a notable example of ICBA members working actively on behalf of our industry. Doyle has always kept his banker hat active in many arenas. In 1990, through his connections serving as ICBA Bancard's chairman, he became the community banking representative on Visa USA's board of directors.
For more than 10 years Doyle has served on the card association's board and just this past year he was elected to represent U.S. banks on the Visa International board and the board of Inovant Inc., a Visa wholly owned processing subsidiary. "Apparently they are comfortable with my judgment," the banker quips.
Linda Echard, president and CEO of ICBA Bancard, says Doyle was particularly instrumental in putting together an ad hoc debit card committee to advise Visa on the marketing assistance small card issuers need.
Coupled with the Visa boards, Doyle was elected in July 2001 to the board of Certegy Inc., ICBA Bancard's Internet banking software preferred vendor. While he attends to his committee commitments, sons Chris and Matt, mine the store, serving as president and CEO. Meanwhile, Matt Doyle also takes time out to serve the industry as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
"I couldn't do all this without the help of my sons," Doyle the elder says.
However, Doyle's role as the voice of the community banker has not been limited to his work on the card association's board. In 1995, after prodding from the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and ICBA President and CEO Ken Guenther, the Board of Governors of the...