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A community bank-fueled payments rail

Independent Banker

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. American State Bank in Sioux Center, Iowa, is another CHUCK network participant. “As

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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. Security Bank Midwest. Security Bank. Iowa State Bank. Iowa Falls. United Bank of Iowa. By Ed Avis. Methodology. Agriculture: Less than $300 million in assets. Ag Lender Score. Red River State Bank. First State Bank.