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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

To counter such competition, the $186 million-asset community bank plans to hire another lender to seek deals across the state, sticking to smaller towns and avoiding the saturated Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., Ponce Bank, a $1.5 billion-asset community development financial institution (CDFI) in Bronx, N.Y., Badger Bank in Fort Atkinson, Wis.,