by Terri James | Aug 26, 2021 | News
By Rebeca Romero Rainey If community bankers weren’t busy enough continuing their heroic economic response to the pandemic, a recent proposal to impose new IRS reporting mandates on customer bank accounts has become a major advocacy priority. To counter the plan,...
by Terri James | Jun 25, 2021 | Convention, News
Dory A. Wiley, President & CEO LLC, the holding company for Commerce Street Capital, LLC (“CSC”), a FINRA-member broker/dealer and Commerce Street Investment Management, LLC (“CSIM”), an SEC-registered investment advisor. Since...
by Terri James | Jun 7, 2021 | News
By Joel Williquette In the wake of the high-profile cyberattacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline affecting national security and the everyday lives of Americans, cybersecurity has never been a more pressing concern to community banks. Fortunately, ICBA...
by Terri James | Jun 2, 2021 | News
One of my early mentors told me, ‘It’s often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.’ That piece of advice has … allowed us to be a little more progressive as a bank. Leading a family-owned community bank offers a lot of opportunities,...
by Laura Welker | May 28, 2021 | News
The economic downturn from COVID-19 has pummeled main street businesses, but the Payroll Protection Program loans of the Cares Act have saved hundreds of thousands of them. On April 3, 2020, the first day of the first round of PPP loans, the number one lender in the...
