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Customer hostilities can cause stress for a community bank’s staff. Try these tips to calm the storm and maintain great customer relationships.

“Community banking as a career pulls us in because we know that we have the potential to make a real difference.”

Jenny Bogden of First International Bank & Trust in Minot, North Dakota, shares her secret to success and longevity in the field: continued education and professional development.

Cody Appell, vice president of IT and lending at $105 million-asset Anderson State Bank in Oneida, Illinois, is the drumline instructor and assistant band director at his alma mater, ROWVA High School.

Partnerships with athletic organizations is a mutually beneficial way for community banks to get their brands in front of large audiences while supporting the teams and athletes their customers and communities love.

Since 2025, Devon Bank’s Not-for-Profit Education Series has helped Chicago-area organizations better serve their communities.

SPONSORED | For five years, CECL exams ran on a simple premise: show us what you did, and we'll tell you if you got it wrong. The OCC's July 2026 update to the "Allowances for Credit Losses" booklet ends that era. In a recent Empyrean webinar, Zach Englert walked through what changed and what institutions should check before their next exam.

A game of bingo with a twist is helping GBank teach fraud-prevention tactics to seniors in the Las Vegas area.

Healthcare practice financing is no longer a niche play. It’s an opportunity to build deep relationships in a fast-growing, low-risk industry.