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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana: Breaking the mold. Bank of Montana. When a community bank’s employees refer to it as “a second family,” it speaks volumes, and that’s exactly what we heard from the team at Bank of Montana in Missoula, Mont. Missoula, Mont.

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CFPB announces proposed consent order with companies alleged to have collected loans void under state law

CFPB Monitor

The relevant states are Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Dakota (“Subject States”). The loans in question were made by companies owned by Native American tribes.

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Bankers: Just Do It!

Jeff For Banks

"That's all fine and good, but if your bank doesn't do it or the reporting doesn't get to the front line, how can we improve?" ~ Montana Bankers' Association Executive Development Program Student Sing from the same sheet of music. Row in the same direction. Everyone should be on the same page. Do we really want this?

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. In Arkansas, Jim S. Jim Gowen Sr.

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Federal DC Court Overturns Closed-End Loan HMDA Reporting Threshold

CFPB Monitor

The court noted the plaintiffs asserted “that HMDA data have been invaluable in ‘uncovering and addressing redlining, fair lending violations, and other inequitable lending practices’ over the decades.” Additionally, prior to that rule, the reporting of open-end lines of credit was optional, so there was no reporting trigger. .

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