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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Stories worth telling

Independent Banker

This Community Banking Month, I invite you to try something new to spread your story. Share a new development, community project or initiative. As community bankers, we know relationships matter. I’m headed to Memphis to meet with our state and regional partners, and then I’ll be engaging with the team at CRA Partners.

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Jim Reber: Floating rate assets are back

Independent Banker

The financial press, economic commentators and social media sites have used a collection of terms this year that convey a certain image of market values for investment securities: “Plummet.” Community bankers have come to grips with the notion of their bond portfolios being, ahem, “submerged” in a number of ways. Underwater.”

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