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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

September 1st, 1999, regulators from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, at the behest of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, descended on a small coal mining town in Keystone, West Virginia. Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

From nowhere, sizable regional players are being created. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture. Performance and multiples continue to be solid, outperforming most regional banks.

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Game-Changing Tech Or Dystopian Nightmare? How 16 Industries Could Be Transformed By Facial Recognition

CB Insights

The university was granted a patent around “hallucinating facial features” — a method to help law enforcement agencies identify masked suspects by reconstructing a full face when only the periocular region of the face is captured. During last year’s midterm elections, West Virginia allowed citizens to use the Voatz app to vote.