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Powering-Up Tools: Your Membership Resources

Independent Banker

With a consultative approach, I ensure members’ needs are being met through our eight regional offices,” he says. An award-winning, monthly magazine that provides in-depth industry news, including member profiles, lending and technology trends, and expert insights. Community Bank Career Center. Community Bank Locator.

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Penchants for the Personal

Independent Banker

A young entrepreneur prefers relationship community banking. With whatever time he has had left over, he runs his own regional business magazine. In general, Meadows believes community banks can play an important role in helping young businesspeople. By William Atkinson. He’s an entrepreneurial prodigy.

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Customer to Community Banker

Independent Banker

With vigor and a strong commitment to service, Ron Paul leads a rapidly growing community bank in Maryland. Eastern Region Award Recipient. Bank assets: $5 billion. Ronald Paul first encountered community banking as a real estate developer in the early 1980s. Ronald Paul , EagleBank. Bethesda, Md.

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Is Size an Advantage? Not Always, Our Ranking of Regional Banks Shows

American Banker

The combination of higher regulatory expenses andreduced income from interchange fees is taking a toll on the profitability of banks with $10 billion to $50 billion of assets.

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Time to Refresh Your Bank's Board

American Banker

Directors today are expected to perform many duties that, even a decade ago, weren't part of the job, from overseeing cybersecurity and the bank's culture to setting online and mobile strategy. Yet the composition of many bank boards hasn't changed all that much.

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Why Midsize Banks Rule Right Now

American Banker

Large enough to meet the needs of most customers yet small enough to escape some of the Dodd-Frank Act's most onerous compliance expenses, banks with assets of $2 billion to $10 billion are more profitable, as a group, than their smaller and larger counterparts, according to an analysis by Capital Performance Group.

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Beware the 'Cargo Cult' of Performance Targets

American Banker

Is your bank effectively mitigating the risk of 'managing to metrics'? The phony-account scandal at Wells Fargo illustrates how sales quotas can incent bad behavior. Or could it be in danger of becoming a 'cargo cult'?