Debbie Maw, chief financial officer of HomeStar Bank and Financial Services, played a key part of shepherding the bank through the troubled times of the Great Recession.
Maw is one of six women honored by NorthWestern Financial Review as a 2015 Outstanding Woman in Banking.
“She bleeds HomeStar,” said Patrick Martin, president of the $331 million Manteno, Ill., bank, which is about 60 miles south of Chicago.
Originally, the bank offered a variety of products but ended up concentrating in real estate — home mortgages, both single-family and multi-family. When the recession hit, the bank experienced lean years as . . .
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