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Extend Customer Relationships With Better Business Payments

Consistently fulfilling commercial customers’ payments needs can make community banks indispensable to small businesses.

By Colleen Morrison

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Lending
b1Bank Paves the Way for New Businesses

By William Atkinson

Small Biz
Lending
6 Ways to Deepen Small-Business Relationships

By Taylor Hugo

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Lending
Sharing the Load With Participation Loans

By Beth Mattson-Teig

Banking
The Lending Outlook for 2024

By Beth Mattson-Teig

Lending
8 Ways Community Banks Can Boost Small Business Lending

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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The power of a CDFI

By Tiffany Lukk

State Bank of Texas team with La Quinta customer Commercial
The community banks standing by hospitality customers

By Beth Mattson-Teig

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Overcoming banking hurdles for Native American customers

By Beth Mattson-Teig

Thomas Zernick and Amy Thomas Operations
First Home Bank’s PPP pivot

By William Atkinson

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What’s a special-purpose credit program?

By Mary Thorson Wright

First Western Bank & Trust team Commercial
Who made ICBA's 2021 list of Top Lenders?

By Ed Avis

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Growing Your Loan Portfolio with Construction Lending
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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2021: What's the path ahead?

By Kelly Pike