
Tony Sims has been promoted to senior vice president and director of marketing for Community Bancshares Inc., the holding company for Community Banks. Active in the banking community, Sims serves on the Communications Council for the Mississippi Bankers Association and as a County Chairman for Mississippi Young Bankers. He is also a member of the [...] [...]
BankPlus has promoted Dawn Kinard to bank officer and branch manager of the Dogwood Promenade office. Kinard has over 16 years of experience in the banking industry and has been with BankPlus for three years. A native of Sturgis, Kinard is a member of the Ridgeland Chamber of Commerce where she has served as a [...] [...]

SANDESTIN, Fla. — Expect Mississippi to show healthy job growth through 2016, IHS Global Insight says in a report cited by an FDIC economic researcher and presented at the Mississippi Bankers Association convention. Gary Beasley, regional manager of the FDIC’s Division of Insurance & Research, said the forecast by the global information company put Mississippi [...] [...]

Examiners are frustrated by second-guessing from their supervisors and no longer see the upside in granting the benefit of the doubt, said David Kemp, president of Bankers Management. SANDESTIN, Fla. – Expect that harder edge you’ve noticed in your banking examiner to harden even further over the next two to three years. That’s the dose [...] [...]
Employment in the banking and investment banking industries has not been affected too adversely by the downward spiral of the economy, say some analysts. At best, it has been level, says Ken Cyree, the Frank R. Day/Mississippi Bankers Association chair of banking at the University of Mississippi. “Despite the economy and massive layoffs in other [...] [...]

Banker Joel C. Clements of Waynesboro has been elected chairman of the Mississippi Bankers Association for 2010-2011. Clements is chairman of the board, president and CEO of Waynesboro-based First State Bank. Carl J. Chaney of Gulfport was elected vice chairman. He is president and CEO of Gulfport-based Hancock Bank. The association’s new treasurer is H. [...] [...]

Giving banks a voice Deaver, MBA helping industry meet challenges With its roots tracing back to the late 1880s, the Mississippi Banking Association serves as the banking industry advocate in the Magnolia State while offering education, products and services to its membership. McKinley “Mac” Deaver recently sat down with the Mississippi Business Journal’s Nash Nunnery [...] [...]

Lori Richardson has joined the Mississippi Bankers Association (MBA) staff as an administrative assistant. She comes to the MBA from Parkway Baptist Church, where she worked as an administrative assistant for 18 years. Her career also includes stints at Financial Tracking System and Unifirst Bank (now Trustmark). Richardson is a graduate of Hinds Community College. [...] [...]