Writer: Tony Telschow

Cofounder opens new chapter as bank begins second decade [Continue]

Dave Cebulla, Pine County Bank, Little Falls, Minn., took over as board president of the Upper Midwest Agricultural Credit Council during the organization’s convention in July. [Continue]

Doug Jilek, president of First Community Bank in Silver Lake and Lester Prairie, Minn., plans to put a few miles on his car in the coming months. [Continue]

James MacPhee, chairman-elect of ICBA, sharply reviewed the wrangle over FDIC’s special assessment and gave an update on regulatory reform efforts. [Continue]

The Federal Home Loan Banks are looking at a range of options for strengthening the system after several quarters of extraordinary activity, said Dick Swanson, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines and current chairman of the bank presidents’ council for the 12 banks. [Continue]

Five things you can do right now to find and fight fraud [Continue]

Barb Finney has been a crucial contributor to two major mergers in the last three years, and has distinguished herself as an influential senior officer at the $1.5 billion MidWestOne Bank, Iowa City, Iowa. Finney is a senior vice president based in Oskaloosa and market president of the bank’s second-largest market. She led the merger … Read more

Tony Gambaiani grew up in Rockville, Ind., a town of about 2,700, where his father was the school superintendent and his mother was a teacher. Opting out of a career in the family profession, he turned instead toward banking as an undergraduate at Franklin College, just south of Indianapolis. While there, he interned in the … Read more

Lisa Artz joined Grafton, N.D.-based Choice Financial Group in 2004, after Community First, the Fargo bank where she had started her career, merged with San Francisco-based Bank of the West. In the four-and-a-half years since then, Artz, a West Fargo-based executive vice president responsible for sales and marketing, has helped develop and launch important initiatives, … Read more

After three-and-a-half years as a North Dakota state bank examiner, Greg Vetter took a job in credit administration at American State Bank and Trust in Williston, N.D. When he left 14 years later, he had risen to chief financial officer. He was single when he arrived in Williston, but as he left to pursue a … Read more