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One of our member banks has shared with us the following letter the bank received regarding a patent license involving a remote deposit capture offering. If your bank has received such a letter as the one that follows, please email it to Roger Beverage – roger@oba.com – at your early convenience. Click here to read the letter.

From the chairman By Curtis Davidson OBA Chairman Here’s the real story about my favorite community banker. P.D. moved to Ardmore a year after he married his childhood sweetheart, Raymonde, who was known simply as Ray. He found a cashier job with Ardmore National Bank. He soon worked directly under Lee Cruce, who would become Oklahoma’s second governor. P.D. and …

The Oklahoman/NewsOK recently focused its Executive Q&A series on OBA President and CEO Roger Beverage. The story ran in the April 2 edition of the newspaper website. You can read it by clicking here.

From the chairman By Curtis Davidson OBA Chairman OBA road trip continues. We have reached our half way point for the OBA Spring Bankers’ Night Out events. Attendance has been great at all three locations; Lawton, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Over 300 bankers and vendors have come together to do what we do best; eat and socialize. We also learned …

The 2017 OBA Annual Convention & Trade Show is coming soon, set for May 22-24 at the Embassy Suites in Norman. Matt Lewis, senior columnist for the Daily Beast and author of Too Dumb To Fail, will give the keynote speech at the opening of convention on May 22. Lewis will give a talk titled, “The Trump Years: What to …

The FDIC has announced a new, streamlined call report is available for use in the second quarter by smaller traditional banks that meet the requirements for its use. Generally, the new report will be available for those banks with total assets less than $1 billion and only have domestic offices. “The FDIC announced the availability of the new form as …

The Oklahoman/NewsOK recently focused its Executive Q&A series on F&M Bank Chairman John V. Anderson, who recently celebrated 70 years in banking. The story ran in the March 19 edition of the newspaper/website. You can read it by clicking here.

From the chairman By Curtis Davidson OBA Chairman Last Thursday’s meeting between President Trump and community bankers has been widely reported and discussed, and is covered in more detail below. I would also like to reflect on a few points and the significance of this meeting. Can you remember when a sitting president has met with bankers who represent the …

FDIC-insured banks and savings institutions across the country earned $43.7 billion in the fourth quarter, up 7.7 percent from the industry’s earnings a year before, according to the most recent FDIC statistics. Oklahoma banks also performed well. “Banks continued to be a positive economic force in 2016 with robust year-over-year growth in business loans, as well as commercial real estate …

Ask nearly anyone in a small town the best thing about living in a tiny community and one of the first answers you’ll hear is along the lines of “we all help each other out.” In those regards, Salina certainly fits the bill and Lakeside Bank of Salina is definitely one of those entities helping out. Salina Public Schools recently …