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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. When Gowen first arrived at Merchants & Planters in 1983 to serve as its president and senior lending officer, the bank had two branches and $47 million in assets. One person cannot do it all—there’s just way, way, way too much to do.” —Jim In Arkansas, Jim S.

St. Louis 105
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Justice Department announces settlement to resolve lending discrimination claims against Evolve Bank and Trust

CFPB Monitor

On September 29, 2022, the Justice Department announced a proposed consent order with Evolve Bank and Trust to resolve allegations of lending discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and national origin in the pricing of its residential mortgage loans from at least 2014 through 2019.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.