NYLIB would like to congratulate Saleem Iqbal, President & CEO of HAB Bank, on his recent appointment as Chair of the Community Bankers Council (CBC) of the American Bankers Association (ABA). As CBC Chair, Saleem will help guide ABA's strategy on government relations issues and priorities.

Saleem has a long history as a leader in community banking. He previously served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Advisory Council, consisting of 12 CEOs selected from more than 1,200 financial institutions, from 2011 to 2017. In 2016, Saleem was appointed to the ABA’s CBC. In 2020, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors appointed Saleem to its Bank Advisory Board for a two-year term. In 2022, Saleem agreed to stay on the CSBS’s Bank Advisory Board for a second two-year term.

NYLIB is proud to count HAB Bank as among its members, and looks forward to Saleem’s continued leadership in community banking. Saleem was recently profiled in the ABA Banking Journal, where he discussed his unique background, the important role that community banks play in the communities they serve, and the challenge that “endless regulation” poses to community banks.