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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

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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Stress testing revisited to avert risk and improve risk ratings

Abrigo

First City Bank, a $60 million-asset institution in Columbus, Ohio, has been performing bottom-up stress testing on their portfolio for over six years. Learn more about stress testing methodology by downloading this guide, Actionable Stress Testing Results For Community Banks.

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Business Trend Lines

Independent Banker

As in past years, community bankers will continue to contend with a dynamic, highly competitive lending environment in 2016. Mark Vis, a real estate and commercial loan officer with First State Bank Southwest, a $250 million-asset community bank in Worthington, Minn., Look for more community banks to do the same in 2016.

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Welcome to New Orleans

Independent Banker

Welcome to the Crescent City, where the largest educational gathering of community bankers convenes this month. It’s Community Banking LIVE 2016 in New Orleans. The Peoples Bank Co. Coldwater, Ohio. Independent Community Bankers of America. State/Regional Partners Reception*. General Session Speakers.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

"Our combined financial institution will offer a wider array of products and services while continuing our long-standing personal commitment to our customers and community." - Gregory Schreacke, President of First Financial Service Corporation in Elizabethtown, KY on his bank''s sale to Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc.

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Huntington Unveils Jobs and Lending Plan for Its Hometown

American Banker

Huntington Bancshares in Columbus, Ohio, said it plans to add 1,000 jobs by 2024 at a new office complex in Columbus and lend $300 million to low- and moderate-income communities in the city over the next five years.

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FirstMerit Went to Great Lengths to Find a Buyer

American Banker

FirstMerit reached out to a foreign bank last fall in an effort to negotiate a sale, but the Ohio company eventually agreed to sell itself to Huntington Bancshares for $3.4 billion.

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