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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

3-yr average pre-tax ROA. Cumberland Security Bank, Inc. First Security Bank of Deer Lodge. pre-tax ROA: 3.08%. pre-tax ROA: 2.83%. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Molly Bennett, executive editor, Independent Banker. Tuscaloosa.

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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

When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. We took a serious reputational hit. Good times.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

FDIC Advisory Committee on Community Banking, member. Hartings dove into the details of the deal, which involved ensuring Wright State University would help manage the dorms, finding a legal firm to handle the paperwork and helping get approval for tax-exempt financing from the county. “We Large Community Bank Council, member.

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