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Regulators Close Small Bank in Georgia in 4th Failure of Year

American Banker

The Georgia Department of Banking and Finance closed the $21.4 million-asset Woodbury Banking Company on Friday, marking this year's fourth bank failure.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #4 Bank of the Ozarks

Jeff For Banks

Bank of the Ozarks began in 1903 as a small community bank in Jasper, Arkansas, and by 1937, included an additional bank in Ozark, Arkansas. Since that time, the company has grown to more than 100 locations throughout Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. How did they grow so quickly?

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Advocacy: Election Returns

Independent Banker

Around the Table—Wisconsin community bankers work with legislative staff members on Capitol Hill during ICBA’s Washington Policy Summit. Keeping community banking interests front and center. Rally more than 3,000 community bankers each year who support ICBPAC, ICBA’s federal political action committee for community banking.

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

PYMNTS

At the end of 2017, a handful of Chinese provinces and the country of Georgia were home to 75 percent of the world’s bitcoin mining, while only 3 percent was happening in the U.S. Frankly, whenever miners arrive, communities aren’t so willing to roll out a red carpet — because, as neighbors go, miners are kind of a fizzle.

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