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Nurturing New Businesses

Independent Banker

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. When you’re looking at key issues in the community, bring entrepreneurs to the table and ask them to solve it—because that’s who solves things,” Williamson insists.

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FI Highlight: Apollo Bank

Banking 2020

Apollo Bank , a locally-owned bank in the Miami area, is doing just this. We recently spoke with Eddy Arriola, Chairman of Apollo Bank, to learn more about their initiatives and how other financial institutions can learn from them. In a few sentences, can you tell us a bit more about Apollo Bank?

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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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Innovation on Display: The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017

Celent Banking

Ecoboost engine, FIS's long-term goal is to create build-once, deploy-everywhere core banking components that can be configured in various ways to support the need of a small community bank, boutique wealth manager, or a high-scale retail bank. As Ford has shown with its 3.5L

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The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017: Innovation on Display

Celent Banking

Ecoboost engine, FIS's long-term goal is to create build-once, deploy-everywhere core banking components that can be configured in various ways to support the need of a small community bank, boutique wealth manager, or a high-scale retail bank. As Ford has shown with its 3.5L

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Community bank marketing resources. With market opportunity heating up and big bank and big credit union competitors hitting hard, too many community banks lack marketing resources … or they have 2X more spending in sponsorships than the campaigns, analytics and digital sales improvements that actually bring in new business.