Mid-year assessment: Good management practice for bankers
Mid-year seems like a good time to pause and consider four issues bankers need to get right if they hope to succeed through the remainder of this year and well into the future. [Continue]
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State Filings – Midwest (June 2018)
Pinnacle Bank, Sioux City, filed to merge with Peoples Bank, Rock Valley.
Clarke County State Bank, Osceola, filed to… [Continue]
Fatherly offer leads to 30 years in South Dakota banking
Jack Hopkins may never know how much a call from his father 30 years ago was made out of paternal duty and how much of it was rooted in business sense, but that call set his feet on a banking path he’s followed ever since. [Continue]
InvestUP works to reframe Michigan’s UP narrative
Since 2000 the population of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has dropped 4 percent, and unemployment is 5.5 percent, more than a percentage point higher than the national average. One bank-backed economic development initiative is working to turn that around. [Continue]
Minnesota bank regulator serious about transparency
Minnesota’s newest deputy commissioner of financial institutions, Max Zappia, joined the Commerce Department as a bank examiner in 2009, where he has held several positions, including chief examiner of banking. [Continue]
Firebrand Cam Fine reflects on 15 years of advocacy at ICBA
Camden Fine has closed the door on a 15-year career as the president and CEO of the Independent Community Bankers of America. BankBeat publisher Tom Bengtson recently asked Fine to reflect on his career in advocacy. [Continue]
Minnesota bank grows portfolio of boutique wineries in Napa Valley
When Andy Amador was 26, he had enough savings to make a down payment on a ranch in California’s Napa Valley, but no bank financing to close the deal. Lucky for him, the seller was willing to hold the note on the 188-acre estuarine flatland at the base of Mt. Veeder. Amador coveted the ranch’s hayfields and pastureland for their hunting potential. [Continue]
Rebeca Romero Rainey brings youthful idealism to ICBA
Former CEO and chair of Centinel Bank, Taos, N.M., Rebeca Romero Rainey became head of the Independent Community Bankers of America in May. Once the youngest bank president in the nation, Romero Rainey now brings her passion to the world of community banking advocacy. [Continue]
Wisconsin bank finds Sunbelt success in RVs
Wisconsin’s River Valley Bank originally launched IncredibleBank.com as a deposit-gathering tool. It sustained itself during the recession, and now it’s expanded to serve the niche banking needs of luxury motorcoach owners. [Continue]
15 Towers of York dazzle Nebraska town
Arts sponsorship needn’t break the bank. In fact, just a $500 investment each by all five locally-owned banks in York, Nebraska, added tens of thousands to the city’s Firecracker Frenzy fund for its annual Fourth of July celebration. All it took was creative ingenuity, and a coming together of community, to spark a plan. A … Read more