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Growing a mortgage portfolio: Encourage borrowers to bank local

Abrigo

With mortgage rates down in the US , many homebuyers are looking locally to their community banks to finance their new, potentially life-changing purchase. In the spirit of the go local movement, new data from Sageworks Bank Information peeked in on 10 cities to see which community banks were making an impact on local mortgage lending.

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Five Straight Years on Top

Independent Banker

Midwest Bank. Detroit Lakes, Minn. The employees of Midwest Bank are pleased that the bank is featured as an ICBA high-performing community bank and are especially pleased that it represents the fifth straight year of this recognition. ROAA in 2015: 2.16 ROAE in 2015: 22.61 Assets: $369 million.

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15 Minutes With … Scott Badley

Independent Banker

Badley: We have a cool blend of communities. Some are heavily farming communities. But a couple are pushing up against the metro Detroit area. Collectively, we’re positioned where we can have customers and employees from a couple bigger areas (such as the communities of Lapeer and Port Huron). It is not necessary.

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The Mother List of All Banking Books

Jeff For Banks

The Maze of Banking: History, Theory, Crisis 2015 Gary B. Bancorp 1891-1984 1984 Mark Singer Singer, Mark Funny Money 1985 George Richard Slade Slade, George Richard Banking in the Great Northern Territory: An Illustrated History 2005 Greg Smith Smith, Greg Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story 2012 Robert H.

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VC Seems To Fizzle Out For B2B FinTechs

PYMNTS

Alternative Lending. Draper Triangle, Baird Capital, Detroit Venture Partners, Invest Michigan and CU Solutions Group all participated in the funding, reports in Crain’s Detroit said, adding that all were previous backers of the company. Catfoss Finance. The firm provided funding to U.K. This week, the U.S.

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