Assessing Metropolitan’s market timing: Experienced risk takers pulled it off
by Ted Carter
Published: March 12,2012
Tags: Brandon Roberts, Canton Mississippi, Curt Gabardi, Hans Petit, Highland Colony, HORNE CPAs, Jackson Mississippi, Metropolitan Bank, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Premier Insights, Ridgeland Mississippi, The Township
It’s not like founder Curt Gabardi and his Metropolitan Bank partners decided to sell popsicles in an ice storm. But starting a bank as the nation’s financial sector verged on falling off a cliff? “Whether intentional or by chance, in a warped kind of way they probably picked the best time in the world to [...]
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