2025 Pub. 13 Issue 3

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Brighton Bank Heather Johnson has been hired as a commercial portfolio manager at the South Salt Lake branch. She brings over 23 years of banking experience, with a strong focus on commercial lending since 2007. Heather is passionate about helping businesses at every stage and values the lasting relationships she has built with her clients.

A group of Utah bankers traveled to Washington, D.C., in September to meet with regulators from the OCC, FDIC, Treasury and Federal Reserve, and the state’s Congressional delegation and even took in a ballgame at Nationals Park.

Celtic Bank Celtic Bank works hard to meet community members where they are through its CRA program. Women of the World is an organization serving refugee and forcibly displaced women in the Salt Lake Valley. They asked for the bank’s help in creating basic financial education in a format that is friendly to women from

Recent banking crises and economic shocks have highlighted vulnerabilities in the financial system, prompting increased regulatory stress testing and stricter capital requirements — particularly for larger banks.

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was designed to ensure that banks and financial institutions invest in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities.

Bankers and community leaders gathered in Draper for the UBA’s Community Reinvestment Act Conference on Sept. 25, 2025, a day focused on sharing ideas, building connections and advancing strategies to strengthen Utah communities

The landscape of synthetic identity creation is evolving rapidly, driven by unprecedented advancements in AI tools that are both more powerful and widely accessible.

Earlier this summer, President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act, a long-awaited bill that will kickstart the development of a new regulatory framework for stablecoins in the U.S.