Mississippi Business Journal » Jerry Wilson http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 An endangered necessity http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/an-endangered-necessity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-endangered-necessity http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/an-endangered-necessity/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:49:30 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=72401 Mississippi has 19 small banks as defined as banks with less than $100 million in assets. And while most of these small banks that serve as the economic lifeblood of many rural areas of the state didn’t participate in the risky mortgage lending practices blamed for the Great Recession, they may now be endangered by [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/03/29/an-endangered-necessity/feed/ 0 Former bank president turns to regulation as new commissioner http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/08/former-bank-president-turns-to-regulation-as-new-commissioner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-bank-president-turns-to-regulation-as-new-commissioner http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/08/former-bank-president-turns-to-regulation-as-new-commissioner/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:01:58 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=59398 Jerry Wilson figured to spend the first six months of his retirement as president and CEO of BankFirst clearing his noggin of 43 years of banking clutter. Good thing he didn’t quite finish the clearing. He’ll be calling on that four-decades of banking knowledge daily in his new job as Mississippi banking commissioner. The 67-year-old [...]

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