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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). We took a serious reputational hit. credit default swaps anyone?).

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Retail locations: Seven. FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking, member. Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. By Kelly Pike. The Peoples Bank Co. Coldwater, Ohio. Assets: $450 million. Employees: 80. Shareholders: 260. Founded: 1905. Website: www.pbcbank.com.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Using FDIC data for 2021, we calculated a lender score out of 100 for each community bank. We lent to retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, small mom-and-pop stores, barber shops, beauty salons, day cares, churches … we did not turn anybody away,” Frank says. “We By Ed Avis. Methodology. CapTex Bank, National Association. Beaver Dam.