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Branch Business: The Banks Opening New Locations Across the US

Banking Exchange

Merchants & Marine is expanding in Mississippi, while Woodforest National Bank is growing in North Carolina Management Feature M&A Feature3.

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Podcast: ‘Folks Who Are Low-Wealth Also Need Wealth Advisers’

ABA Community Banking

Homeownership, savings and holding down a job are three keys to financial well-being and moving out of generational poverty, so that's what Southern Bancorp focuses on in its home Mississippi and Arkansas Delta region, one of the nation's poorest.

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CFPB announces advisory committee members

CFPB Monitor

Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA). Rebecca Steele, President/CEO, National Foundation for Credit Counseling (Washington, DC). The other individuals appointed to the CBAC are: John Buhrmaster, President & CEO, First National Bank of Scotia (Scotia, NY). Clarksdale, MS).

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Training Employees to Soar at Community Bank in Mississippi

American Banker

take a select group of up-and-coming managers on a three-day retreat. The trips are part of a management training course known as the Falcon Program that took flight in 2012. Roughly once a quarter senior executives at Community Bank in Brandon, Miss.,

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Agnani, Director of Policy and Civic Engagement, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development, Washington, D.C. Robinson, Executive Director, Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi, Richland, Miss. DeBery, Senior Vice President, Internal Audit and Risk Management, Bath Savings Institution, Bath, Maine.

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A Deep Dive into the Distribution of the FICO Score Across the US

FICO

Another theory is that people’s exposure to their credit reports and FICO® Scores, like seeing their updated FICO® Score on their monthly credit card statements, may have increased awareness and resulted in more prudent management of their personal finances. Looking for a lower housing cost?

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2021’s Best Community Banks to Work For

Independent Banker

It’s our job as management to put a team together so that the strengths are complemented. It’s our job as management to put a team together so that the strengths are complemented by people who may have different strengths. has five branch offices serving southern Mississippi. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We