Community bank

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A community bank is a depository institution that is typically locally owned and operated. Community banks tend to focus on the needs of the businesses and families where the bank holds branches and offices. Lending decisions are made by people who understand the local needs of families, businesses and farmers. Employees often reside within the communities they serve.

In the United States, community banks are not clearly defined. Most agencies base this term on aggregate assets size with varying definitions such as less than $1 billion (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) up to less than $10 billion (Federal Reserve Board and Government Accountability Office). From 1985 to 2004 they comprised roughly 94% of all banks in the United States, but the proportion of expanding total national deposits that the Community Banks held declined from about 25.89% of all U.S. deposits in 1985 to 13.55% of the U.S. deposits in 2003.

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List of community banks

• Queensborough National Bank and Trust Co. Georgia
• Austin Capital Bank Texas
• Bank of Southside Virginia, Virginia
• Beneficial State Bank of California, Washington, and Oregon, also a CDFI
• Banco Palmas, Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil operating under the principle of the "Solidarity Socio-Economy."
• Blue Harbor Bank in Mooresville, NC
• Camden National Bank of Maine
• Clear Mountain Bank West Virginia
• Community Bank, N.A. of Upstate New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania, subsidiary of Community Bank System, Inc.
• Community Bank (Oregon) of the states of Oregon and Washington
• Dedham Savings, Dedham, Massachusetts
• Cross River Bank, of New Jersey
• Fairfield County Bank, of Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Farmers Bank, Virginia
• The Fidelity Bank North Carolina and Virginia
• First Community Bank of Central Alabama Alabama
• First Northern Bank
• FNB Bank, Kentucky
• Glacier Bank, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Washington
• HomeTown Bank, Virginia
• Northern State Bank of Virginia, Minnesota
• Patriot Bank, Connecticut and New York
• Sandy Spring Bank, Maryland
• Union First Market Bank, Virginia
• United Community Bank South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
• Utah Community Bank Utah
• SeacoastBank Florida

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See also

• U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Credit unions in the United States
• Mutual savings bank
• Regional bank

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References

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External links

• FDIC Future of Community Banking Conference (February 2012) Statistics and conference presentations.
• ICBA (Independent Community Bankers of America - ICBA)
• ICBA - Community Bank Locator
• Switch to Community - Community Banking News and Locator

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