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2021’s Best Community Banks to Work For

Independent Banker

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example.

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After buying bank accused of redlining, Cadence gets top CRA score

American Banker

The FDIC gave Cadence Bank in Mississippi the highest possible rating on its most recent Community Reinvestment Act evaluation. Cadence was the product of a 2021 merger completed just months after the acquired bank settled a federal lending discrimination case.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. But as they always do, they came through for individuals and businesses in their communities with a combination of personalized service and prudent risk management practices. Ag lending in the South: Relationships matter.

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Ponce Bank serves the underserved

Independent Banker

Ponce Bank has brought banking services to minority neighborhoods in the Bronx and greater New York City for more than six decades with a clear focus on community investment. They named the community bank after the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, to honor its founders’ roots. “If Focused on community.

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CFPB announces advisory committee members

CFPB Monitor

Last week, the CFPB announced the appointment of new members to its advisory committees: Consumer Advisory Board (CAB), Community Bank Advisory Council (CBAC), Credit Union Advisory Council (CUAC), and Academic Research Council (ARC). Nikitra Bailey, EVP, Center for Responsible Lending (Durham, NC). Community Bank Advisory Council .

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CFPB lawsuit against All American Check Cashing ends in settlement

CFPB Monitor

The settlement comes less than a month after a Fifth Circuit panel ruled in Community Financial Services Association v. CFPB (CFSA Case) that the CFPB’s funding structure violated the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

PYMNTS

This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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