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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. What great resignation?

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Lexicon Bank: A bank that shows its hand

Independent Banker

It also aimed to capture the gaming market with its Professional Poker Banking Program, which is open to players who have participated in at least one of the World Series of Poker tournaments. Professional players’ finances can be unpredictable and can bring increased regulatory scrutiny, making this a market many banks won’t touch.

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Regulators Close Wisconsin Bank in First Failure of 2016

American Banker

The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions closed the $67.1 million-asset North Milwaukee State Bank on Friday.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Our efforts are paying off

Independent Banker

I’ll be heading to the Wisconsin Bankers Association annual convention and the Independent Bankers Association of Texas regional meetings. The law includes commodity price protections that will give producers and community banks greater business-planning certainty over the next five years. As a community banker in Taos, N.M.,

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Six Smart Steps

Independent Banker

A community bank’s practical guide to compliance cost control. Few community banks have the luxury of ripping and replacing their entire compliance management strategy, leaving many executives on the hunt for practical tips. Arguably, compliance costs are one of the fastest noninterest expense costs for a community bank.

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Trying No-Go Mortgages

Independent Banker

Under the right circumstances, providing residential mortgages that fall outside of the new federal Qualified Mortgage definition could help a community bank grow its lending, some community bankers say. a $613 million-asset community bank serving central and northern Wisconsin that engages in non-QM lending.

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Mortgage Man

Independent Banker

When another lender left the $103 million-asset community bank, Harms picked up her client load for months without complaint and then trained the new replacement staffer. And even as new regulations make the mortgage environment increasingly challenging, he just smiles, adapts quickly and gets back to business.