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The community bank’s complete guide to building trust

Independent Banker

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. So first, we’ll look at how two community banks have become trusted pillars of the community through charity work and good old?fashioned billion-asset community bank. Build your community. It’s in their DNA.

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Agricultural Alert!

Independent Banker

However, the farm community already is being forced to defend even this scaled-back safety net. million farms and the community banks that lend to them each growing season, Scanlan points out. “We Community banks also are likely to see increased regulatory scrutiny of agricultural loans this year. Ongoing concerns.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Bravo April!

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At the Intersection of Banking and Politics

ZootBlog

One nationally acclaimed expert on banking, Kevin Jacques, recently predicted that if Clinton wins the election she will appoint individuals largely from the world of politics with an eye toward strengthening financial regulation and oversight of the banking system as a whole. Department of the Treasury and a decade as a bank regulator.