Cord Polen
Alliance Bank
TITLE: President and CEO of Alliance Bank
AGE: 46
NATIVE OF: Malden, Mo., but consider Cape Girardeau home now.
NUMBER OF BRANCHES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI: Three
NUMBER OF ATMs: Two
HOW HE GOT HIS START IN BANKING: Out of college. My family's hometown banker gave me a couple of people to contact and one called me for an interview and the next thing I knew I was a management trainee with Commercial & Industrial Bank in Memphis.
WHAT'S SOMETHING YOU WISH YOU'D KNOWN WHEN YOU STARTED: The amount of regulation banks must follow for the regulatory agencies such as FDIC and Division of Finance.
WHAT'S THE FASTEST GROWING ASPECT OF YOUR BANK? Commercial/agricultural loans
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