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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

offers a “humanly simple” leadership style of looking out for others. Retail outlets: 11. Gowen chose to add insurance and retail brokerage services to diversify the bank’s revenue streams and more fully serve its customers. —Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank. In Arkansas, Jim S. Central Region Award Recipient.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. We lent to retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, small mom-and-pop stores, barber shops, beauty salons, day cares, churches … we did not turn anybody away,” Frank says. “We Simply Bank.