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Market your community bank with first-party data

Independent Banker

Community banks own an enviable amount of data, but not all are leveraging it to its fullest extent. By Mindy Charski People share important data about themselves with their community bank in myriad ways. Data about existing customers can even help community banks improve their efforts to find new customers.

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Simmons Banks and Spirit of Texas Set to Merge Boosting Texas Footprint

Banking Exchange

Combined firms will expand into Austin, Houston, San Antonion, Corpus Christi and Bryan-College Station Management Feature M&A Feature3 Community Banking.

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A bridge to affordable housing

Independent Banker

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. The 183-unit Melrose Trail in Austin, Texas, is one of the properties backed by Woodforest National Bank. Affordable housing shouldn’t be siloed out.

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Robert Fisher: Who sits at your table?

Independent Banker

Working with a community bank is like being welcomed into the fold, and that’s why we choose our partners with care. But when I think about what makes this time of year special, it’s the sense of community it creates. I guess it’s no wonder that I’ve been drawn to community banking, where connectedness drives that all we do.

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Valley Bank helps lead women home

Independent Banker

Valley Bank is working side by side with Walter Hoving Home, a place of refuge for women struggling with addiction and other personal challenges, to offer residents financial empowerment. By Roshan McArthur For Valley Bank in Wayne, N.J., By teaching virtually, Austin has expanded Valley Bank’s reach nationwide. “I

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Registration deadline approaching - Risk management summit 2017

Abrigo

In September 2016, more than 240 bankers and industry experts from both community banks and credit unions attended the Risk Management Summit in Austin, Texas. The agenda fully embraced the “Year of CECL” and covered the accounting change in detail.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

Ken Finley, president of Johnson City Bank, in downtown Johnson City with Shannon Sultemeier, executive vice president (left); and Brenda Haynes, vice president/cashier (right). With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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