Category: Insights from Dave

Regulatory Relief Bill

Thanks to the power of grass roots advocacy and the support of pro-community banking elected officials, Washington has approved a very much needed regulatory relief bill. The landmark Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act provides regulatory relief to our nation’s community banks, so they can continue financing and supporting the dreams of Americans

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Community Banking Month – April

The Independent Community Bankers of America, of which Iowa State Bank and Trust is a life member, is celebrating community banking in the month of April. The positive impact that the 5,700 community banks dispersed across the nation on their local areas is very important to the health of those localities as well as our

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Insights from Dave

In the past several years we have all experienced the economic consequences of poor banking decisions. We have also experienced its personal tragedies which are the direct results from some very large, complex financial organizations using toxic real estate related products that incented fraud, as well as to over 2.6 million “fake” accounts opened to

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