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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana.

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Heartland Financial strikes deals to unload Montana branches

American Banker

In all, the Denver-based bank plans to sell nine branches to two buyers as part of a decision to exit the state and invest more in technology and other markets where "it has the greatest growth potential."

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Acquisitive Glacier Bancorp strikes deal to expand in Northwest

American Banker

The nearly $81 million plan to buy Community Financial Group in Spokane, Washington, would mark the 13th acquisition in the past decade for Glacier. The Montana-based bank has more than tripled in size during that time.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: We make every day better

Independent Banker

Community banks work hard to ensure that every day is just a little bit better than the last.”. As community bankers, we strive for excellence. In short, community banks work hard to ensure that every day is just a little bit better than the last. and visiting our chairman’s community bank, Bank of Zachary, in Zachary, La.

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Freedom Bank in Montana Released from FDIC Consent Order

American Banker

has been released from a consent order that the FDIC and the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Institutions had implemented in December 2009. Freedom Bank in Columbia Falls, Mont.,

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Does your bank need cyber insurance?

Independent Banker

AmTrust recently worked with one community bank client that was the target of a ransomware attack that shut down its branches for two weeks. Cyber insurance today is what property insurance was 50 years ago,” notes Gregory Montana, chief risk officer at FIS. That has been the exact opposite of my experience.

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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. Bank of Montana.