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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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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Community bankers take the high road

Independent Banker

I’ll be traveling to Memphis to visit Vining Sparks and CRA Partners. We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes that contributed to the 2008 financial catastrophe, which community bankers remember all too well. Where I’ll be this month. I’ll also be speaking at the Tennessee Bankers Association convention.

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Jim Reber: March sanity

Independent Banker

What this has to do with community bank investment management may not be readily apparent. Belly of the curve matters to community banks. First, the average duration of a community bank bond portfolio is more than four years right now. In fact, the tone is about to improve. There are really two reasons.

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Sawyers & Jacobs Bank Tech Summit 2019: How Accelerators and Incubators May Hurt or Help Your Bank

William Mills

WMA president Scott Mills spoke at the Sawyers & Jacobs 2019 Bank Tech Summit in Memphis, Tennessee about how fintech accelerators and incubators can be of service to community financial institutions.

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Jim Reber: Collateral advantage

Independent Banker

By Jim Reber, ICBA Securities As many community bankers are still picking up the pieces from their bond portfolio’s meltdown last year, it occurs to me that the breathtaking rise in rates has created at least one byproduct that is both unusual in frequency and tangibly beneficial for future performance. One is that they are loan surrogates.

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Jim Reber: Floating rate assets are back

Independent Banker

Community bankers have come to grips with the notion of their bond portfolios being, ahem, “submerged” in a number of ways. This column, in many cases, reflects what your correspondent hears from community bankers at conventions, seminars and in old-fashioned discussions. The 2022 Balance Sheet Academy will be held in Memphis, Tenn.,

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Let’s continue to push the boundaries

Independent Banker

It’s always great to be with fellow community bankers, and now, as ICBA president and CEO, our members! It could be something as simple as making a loan to a new kind of business in your community, or bringing in a new technology. at The Venture Center for our Demo Day of the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, and in Memphis, Tenn.,