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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Relationship focus helps CFIs Small banks can leapfrog competitors and better serve their communities by combining their unique advantages with smart management and partnerships. How can community financial institution leaders manage their challenges and seize their opportunities at the same time?

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. There’s a lot of energy in the southern half of Texas, and it’s not just the resources that power our homes and cars. By Mindy Charski. Deepening roots.

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A Rising Texas Star

Independent Banker

Capital market access and employee ownership help fuel Veritex Community Bank’s rapid growth. After a career of nearly three decades as a banker serving various community and regional institutions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, C. Veritex is a combination of the words “veritas,” which means truth in Latin, and “Texas.”

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Today In Digital-First Banking: Paya To Buy The Payment Group; Purdue Federal Credit Union Taps Payrailz For Payment Services

PYMNTS

TPG of Texas offers payment solutions to over 600 utility firms and governments. Fed Moves To Revamp Community Reinvestment Act. The Federal Reserve Board took the first measure in the direction of revamping the rules that impact lending by banks in economically challenged regions.

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Which are America’s healthiest banks?

Abrigo

Based on an analysis of data from more than 6,500 banks across the country, Sageworks recently identified America’s healthiest banks by their Texas Ratios. The list highlights the top 20 banks within each region of the U.S. with the lowest Texas Ratios. Nearly 53 percent of the 80 banks included fell in that asset range.

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15 Minutes With … Jimmy Rasmussen

Independent Banker

in Galveston, Texas. Rasmussen: Yes, it is an honor to serve the Group 3 Banks in Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Louisiana for three more years. Finally, I focus on economic news in our markets, which include five communities south of Houston. IB: How is Texas’s economy holding up with the severe drop in oil prices?

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Yet community bankers serving the oil industry say they’ve been expecting a drop in the notoriously cyclical price of crude. billion-asset community bank based in Happy, Texas. By Howard Schneider.