Corporate Matters

Slow and steady wins for Illinois holding company; New HC formed in South Dakota; Colorado community banks combined. [Continue]

Web Watch: Figuring Facebook

Banks try to build customer bonds through the web       Banks are having a rough time deciding how to fit into Facebook. There is prevailing advice that says every business should have a presence there but for banks the question is “what is proper content?” What is a bank’s place among a customer’s digital “friends?”        Banks … Read more

Illinois banker connects with customers, serves industry

Robin Loftus is at the right place at the right time as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Security Bank in Springfield, Ill. Loftus wears many hats at the bank —lender, marketer, and manager among them. To her, the sum of these tasks is happy customers. “I get to see a lot of … Read more

Iowa banker goes a long way close to home

Rachel Nesheim, president and CEO of First Community Bank, Newell, Iowa, modestly goes about the business of making the bank a pillar of her ag-based community. As a lifelong resident of Newell, the first woman at a 99-year-old, $58 million bank to become a lender and an executive, and a vocal advocate for her industry, … Read more