Revising CRA: Recommendations to facilitate change

Revising CRA: Recommendations to facilitate change

/ Regulation
Is it enough to object to the current method by which banks’ CRA activities are audited and evaluated, without first offering a viable alternative based in objective industry knowledge, market demographics, and needs of each local community? ...
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Old National CEO is retiring

Old National CEO is retiring

/ Promotions & New Hires
Bob Jones is retiring as CEO of Indiana’s Old National after more than 14 years with the company and almost ...
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Successful promotion doesn’t have to mean leading people

Successful promotion doesn’t have to mean leading people

/ Hiring & Retention
We have all been there: Overwhelmed with projects, direct reports and responsibilities. We look to our highest performers to step ...
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Another day, another data breach: On the need to be vigilant

Another day, another data breach: On the need to be vigilant

/ Technology
Whether criminals are attempting to trick their victim into providing information (personal, account, internal procedures), downloading malware, conducting fraudulent transactions, ...
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Chronicles

Glacier announces Utah deal

/ Chronicles
Montana-based Glacier Bancorp has signed a deal to acquire FNB Bancorp, the bank holding company for The First National Bank ...
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Bell Bank parent selling Discovery Benefits

/ Chronicles
State Bankshares, the parent company of Fargo, N.D-based Bell Bank, announced Jan. 17 it signed an agreement to sell its ...
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Frandsen to acquire Alerus office in Duluth, Minn.

/ Chronicles
Frandsen Bank & Trust plans to purchase a Duluth, Minn., branch from Alerus Financial, N.A. Richard Hoban, director of corporate ...
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Heartland subsidiaries part with loan portfolio

/ Chronicles
Citizens Finance Co. and Citizens Finance of Illinois Co., have completed the sale of their existing loan portfolios totaling approximately ...
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Indiana’s First Financial to acquire Kentucky bank

/ Chronicles
First Financial Corporation and HopFed Bancorp, Inc., announced that HFBC will merge into First Financial in a cash and stock ...
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First International acquires Moorhead insurance agency

/ Chronicles
Johnson & Johnson Insurance will become part of Watford City, N.D.-based First International through its insurance subsidiary ...
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People

Michigan gets new banking director

/ Promotions & New Hires
Anita Fox began her tenure as the director of the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services on Monday. Fox ...
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Bryan to lead Farmers Trust

/ Promotions & New Hires
Farmers Trust and Savings Bank, Spencer, Iowa, named Mike Bryan its new president. He takes on the role from retiring ...
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Iowa Trust names new president/CEO

/ Promotions & New Hires
Renate Deininger has been appointed president and CEO of Iowa Trust and Savings Bank, Centerville ...
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Opinion

Boldly going where no one has gone before…

/ Operations
Banks these days offer some payment transactions in real time, others in simulated real time, and still others in a ...
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New law offers banks a way to accelerate deposit growth

/ Operations
For a long time, it seemed as if the deck was stacked against community banks. But now, some of that ...
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Would liquidity be worse if the crisis hadn’t happened?

/ The Economy
As interest rates rise, it is an interesting time to think about deposits. The change in the rate environment puts ...
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Community Relations

WaterStone launches program for first responders

/ Community Relations
Wisconsin’s WaterStone Bank is launching an add-on program for checking accounts exclusively for first responders ...
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ChoiceOne builds Tree of Hope

/ Community Relations
Employees in ChoiceOne’s main office and loan operations department, both in Sparta, Mich., collected more than 100 gifts to deliver ...
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Northview helps with winter prep

/ Community Relations
A bank based in Finlayson, Minn., helped its community members prepare for the cold weather through an outerwear drive ...
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