Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Meanwhile, leaders at small banks recognize that their institutions play a vital role in helping community businesses and individuals not only weather uncertainty but also thrive. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Daniel Galindo, pictured, and Doug Schaeffer of Woodforest National Bank helped involve the community bank in providing funding for and access to affordable housing. Location: The Woodlands, Texas. The 183-unit Melrose Trail in Austin, Texas, is one of the properties backed by Woodforest National Bank.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Effects of the pandemic and other factors creating unpredictability have changed how community banks approach their credit and lending operations. Bankers and industry observers have several recommendations for how community banks can come up with risk ratings and rankings that foster safe growth in a volatile economic climate.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example. Key Community Bank. At the heart of Key Community Bank’s work culture is connection. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

That in-person collaboration and networking creates a platform for us to share thoughts and ideas in an organic way that’s so natural to community bankers, and we are both celebrating and honoring the fact we can be together again. I’ll be prepping for and then attending ICBA LIVE 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. Where I’ll Be This Month.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Standard Chartered in London has hired a key executive from Independent Bank Group in McKinney, Texas, to oversee its U.S. operations.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Iowa company will pay $280 million to gain 25 branches and $1.2 billion in loans.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For the purposes of the Q2 2021 UBPR, regulators placed a Texas-based community bank into a nationwide group of other banks with assets between $300 Million and $1 Billion (“PG5”). for the bank and an average value of 3.40 Example: Net Interest Margin (NIM). for its PG5 peer group. Asset size is too broad.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

An event at EMS in June brought together (L–R) Clear Mountain Bank president/CEO Dave Thomas, ICBA president Rebeca Romero Rainey, FHLBank Pittsburgh president/CEO Winthrop Watson, and Tim Critchfield, EMS owner/president. Name: Clear Mountain Bank. In 2021, the bank was named West Virginia Community Lender of the Year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Advanced technology is raising the stakes of how CUs should operate, with members now demanding the instant payments and slick mobile interfaces that large banks and FinTechs have made standard,” the Tracker stated. Take the legal hemp and marijuana market, for example.

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Abrigo

JUNE 25, 2015

During leaner years is often when the demand for ag loans increases , as it’s common for those full-time farmers to tap into their community bank to cover operating costs or invest is other lines of the agricultural business. Headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, the non-traditional bank held more than $1.6

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Independent Banker

APRIL 28, 2016

Everyone is operating from the same playbook. First Bank & Trust East Texas. Diboll, Texas. Jay Shands ( jshands@fbtet.com ) is president and CEO of First Bank & Trust East Texas. Our board and executive management team play a support role, providing timely and consistent decision-making.

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American Banker

JANUARY 31, 2020

National Lloyds, which provides insurance for mobile homes, has a distribution network that operates in 40 states.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Faced with several transitional issues, here’s how these community banks gained support from their new providers to adapt to the change. Two years before changing core processors, Asian Bank began conducting weekly meetings to brainstorm attributes its dream core provider would possess. When Del Norte Bank in Del Norte, Colo.,

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2017

Retail Retail is typically one of the larger segments within the commercial real estate portfolio for the average community bank. Along with multifamily and condominiums, the retail sector is surging in high growth areas such as the Carolinas, Florida, Texas and Nashville.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Mikella Newsom (middle) successfully manages a $325 million institutional investment portfolio for City Bank in Lubbock, Texas. Jeremy Smail (right) successfully manages a $150 million institutional investment portfolio for First Option Bank in Osawatomie, Kan. Investment principles of top bank portfolio managers.

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Independent Banker

JULY 29, 2016

These in-depth and timely professional development programs are designed exclusively for community bankers and led by nationally recognized industry experts who know the issues community banks grapple with. Each certification course is designed to prepare bank professionals to handle essential tasks and responsibilities.

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Independent Banker

JULY 1, 2015

Jamey Smith Citizens Bank in Kilgore, Texas. As a successful commercial lending specialist for more than 30 years, Jamey Smith, Houston region CEO of Citizens Bank in Kilgore, Texas, has pursued a strategy of getting an in-depth understanding of potential customers and their businesses. By Judith Sears.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 27, 2015

Community National Bank & Trust of Texas. in Corsicana, Texas. We have a very successful junior college, school district and hospital—the typical things that you would expect to see in a community. But like the commercial side of our bank, we focus on what we know and do well. Photo by Aggie Brooks.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Banks and credit unions had to fundamentally change their delivery, support and relationship management models at scopes and speeds that were unheard of. And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Bank Deal of the Year PNC nabs BBVA USA – paying 1.3 Let us break it down for you.

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CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council. New members to the Consumer Advisory Board will serve three-year terms and new members to the Community Bank and Credit Union Advisory Councils will serve two-year terms.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 26, 2012

In its latest investor presentation, BofI highlighted it''s expense ratio (operating expense as a percent of average assets) compared to peer as 1.67% versus 3.17%, respectively, and efficiency ratio (operating expense as a percent of total revenue) compared to peer as 35% versus 63%, respectively. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Early Air Force service prepared the way for community banking in California. After six months at a training base in Texas, my first assignment was to Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan, which was a base operated jointly by the United States and the Republic of China. By Stephen M. The primary mission of U.S.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 18, 2017

I think correspondent bankers are finding their way and morphing into services that banks need. Their original purpose, as I understand it, was to use up operating, liquidity, and credit capacity in larger financial institutions to benefit nearby community banks. Call the correspondent bank. Need access to cash?

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This deal looks good for Temenos, Kony and the banking industry clients of both firms. The digital banking market continues a long burn—this time like the smoke of a Texas summer barbecue. Geneva-based Temenos’ announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based digital application provider Kony in a deal totaling $580 million.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. #3. Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. A summary of the banks, their strategies, and links to their website are below. #1. It supports the claim by highlighting its efficiency ratio compared to peer banks (38.7% The branchless community bank operates in the Wilmington-Philadelphia market.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. It’s certainly an interesting time to be a community bank, but there are still plenty of ways to make efficiencies with an eye on profitability. ? But one of the biggest problems in community banking today is a fear of risk.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

We asked community banks how they’re dealing with the resulting shifts in their employment models. Before remote work was an emergency measure to keep employees safe from a devastating virus, it was a perk some community banks offered to retain and attract talent. One bank that is not turning back. WesBanco, Inc.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Having worked in banking for nearly 23 years and having been preceded in executive leadership by my father and grandfather at our family’s community bank, I have repeatedly heard similar statements from our mortgage customers.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. And at a micro level, how do community banks reach a generation overwhelmed with debt that inhibits wealth? My son did the same with no plans to return.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 29, 2014

To exemplify, here are three Texas bank''s "Business" and "Business Strategy" sections to their most recently filed 10k. I picked Texas because of their perceived independent streak. We believe we can effectively compete as a community bank in our market area and the niche markets we serve. Independent?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

THE BANKING AWARDS. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. Credit Union Merger of the Year – Goes to Lake Michigan Credit Union and its CEO Sandy Jelinski for acquiring Florida-based community bank Encore.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

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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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

(Nasdaq: OZRK) of Little Rock, Arkansas Over a 100-year banking history, Bank of the Ozarks expanded from its headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, to more than 100 locations throughout the Southeast and is consistently ranked among the top performing banks in America (see chart). How did they grow so quickly?

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

State Bank of Texas, led by president Sushil Patel (center), has a niche working with hospitality customers like Reena and Arun Patel, who own and operate a La Quinta hotel in Dallas. MainStreet Bank has a sizable hotel loan portfolio with roughly $100 million in loans on 15 properties. Photo: R.J. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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