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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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A digital-first bank for south Florida

Independent Banker

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. Name: Locality Bank. Keith Costello, Locality Bank. “We

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Preparing for Section 1071

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 Financial institutions should consider the impact of this rule and prepare for changes to their business operations. Lucci said the entities required to collect more data will include more than just banks and credit unions. In fact, it took a lawsuit initiated by a California community group in 2019 to get things moving.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

The Peoples Bank helped the Jones family of Legacy Dairy in Hiseville, Ky., From left, Ally Jones; bank chairman, president and CEO Terry L. Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. The bank provides crop insurance to farmers in 11 states.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2022 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Communities First Financial Corporation (OTCQX: CFST) Communities First Financial Corporation is the bank holding company for Fresno First Bank , which opened in December 2005 dedicated to meeting the banking needs of businesses, professionals, and successful individuals in Central California. Welcome back!

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E-Signature Approval

Independent Banker

She’s chief operating officer and vice president of the mortgage company, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead, in Atlanta. Webster says 75 percent of Private Bank’s borrowers select the electronic signature option after its loan officers explain the process to them. “We Howard Schneider is a financial writer in California.