Economic crisis gave Metropolitan Bank the opportunities it needed
by Ted Carter
Published: March 12,2012
Tags: Band of Bankers, banking and finance, Curt Gabardi, Highland Colony, Metropolitan Bank, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Regions Bank, Ridgeland Mississippi, Tennessee, The Township of Highland Colony
>> Gabardi’s idea was to cultivate a niche space in which Metropolitan’s bankers would compete against other bankers — not other banks As the sky seemed to be falling on the nation’s banking sector in 2008, veteran banker Curt Gabardi and his “Band of Bankers” executive corps decided there may never be a better time [...]
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