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Walking in your neighbor’s shoes this Thanksgiving.

Long Lasting Ideas

The scene was the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a land that still looked for all the world like a war zone, thanks to Hurricane Katrina, the storm that hammered Mississippi and Louisiana just three months before. at Bank Marketing Strategy + Ideas. Thanksgiving 2005. Where homes once stood, FEMA trailers were in their place.

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Kings, Queens and unlocking dreams.

Long Lasting Ideas

It’s a story of how a new teacher in town used an ancient game –chess – to open the minds and hearts of a Southwest Mississippi community, and taught kids to dream—and dream big. at Bank Marketing Strategy + Ideas. Continue reading Kings, Queens and unlocking dreams.

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DOJ announces major new initiative targeting redlining; DOJ/CFPB/OCC settle redlining lawsuit against Mississippi-based national bank

CFPB Monitor

Trustmark is a national bank headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi with 196 branches in five southern states. Did not monitor or document where its loan officers developed referral sources or to whom they distributed marketing or outreach materials to ensure that such sources or distribution occurred in all neighborhoods in the Memphis MSA.