
Martin Shoemake has been named president/CEO and director of OmniBank. With 34 years in the banking industry, Shoemake has been employed with OmniBank for 25 years. He has managed the Bay Springs and Heidelberg branches of OmniBank for the past 20 years. Shoemake has served the Jasper County community in many capacities. He is an [...] [...]
Nearly half of the Mississippi’s 92 banks and savings and loan institutions received BauerFinancial’s highest rating, a “superior” designation of five stars, for the fourth quarter. In setting its rating, the Coral Gables, Fla-based BauerFinancial evaluates – among other factors — profitability/loss trend, delinquent loans levels, charge-offs and repossessed assets, the market versus book value [...] [...]

Heritage, Cadence get the lowest grades Five-star ratings are plentiful among Mississippi’s community banks in Bauer Financial’s third quarter ratings released last Tuesday, though a handful of weak links remain: zero-rated Heritage Banking Group of Carthage, one-star rated Cadence Bank in Starkville and two-star institutions Peoples Bank of the South in Bude and OmniBank in [...] [...]