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How Relationship Lending & A Transaction-Oriented Focus Can Win More Business Loans

Abrigo

The traditional relationship lending approach for business loans – personal attention and local connections – offered by community banks and credit unions provides a competitive advantage in winning small business loans. It is the backbone of what many community financial institutions do, and they do it well.

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Is commercial lending on the rise?

Independent Banker

Here’s how community bankers can take advantage of various sectors—including SBA lending—over the next 12 months. Community banks that have struggled to grow their commercial loan portfolios over the past two years are optimistic that there are brighter days ahead this year and next. First Business Bank in Madison, Wis.,

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Field of Dreams

Independent Banker

Tony La Russa was a professional baseball manager for 33 years, serving the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He was unanimously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013. He was unanimously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.