Capital Corp of the West Compliance Officer Ferguson Receives Certification.Business Editors MERCED, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2001 Henry Ferguson, Vice President/Compliance Officer, County Bank, Merced has successfully completed the Certified Community Bank Compliance Officer Program, sponsored by the Independent Community Bankers of America. To earn certification, Ferguson successfully completed four ICBA ICBA Independent Community Bankers of America ICBA International Center for Biosaline Agriculture ICBA Instituto Cultural Brasil Alemanha ICBA Independent Community Bankers Association ICBA International Conference on Biometric Authentication seminars: Developing a Compliance Program, Deposit Compliance, Lending Compliance, and Operations Compliance and passed a comprehensive examination in each of these compliance areas. The Independent Community Bankers of America is the primary voice for the nation's community banks, representing nearly 5,000 institutions at nearly 17,000 locations nationwide. Community banks are independently owned and operated and are characterized by attention to customer service, lower fees and small business, agricultural and consumer lending Consumer lending or consumer loans refers to any type of loan product that is not a mortgage; such as a car, boat, manufactured home, home equity loan, home equity line of credit, signature loan, signature line of credit, recreational vehicle, or Certificate of Deposit loans. . ICBA's members hold more than $486 billion in insured deposits, $592 billion in assets and more than $355 billion in loans for customers, small businesses and farms. They employ nearly 239,000 citizens in the communities they serve. For more information, visit www.icba.org. County Bank is an Independent Community Bank, with 18 branches serving customers in the counties of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, San Joaquin San Joaquin (săn wäkēn`), river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay. , Stanislaus, San Francisco and Merced. Capital Corp of the West, the holding company of County Bank, has assets of over $750 million, and is located in Merced, California. The company can be found on the World Wide Web at www.ccow.com and traded through the National Stock Exchange (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on symbol CCOW). Capital Corp of the West offices are housed at the Bank's Merced office, located at 550 West Main Street. The Bank is a member FDIC FDIC See: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC See Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). and an equal housing lender The terms Equal Housing Lender and Equal Opportunity Lender are synonymous and refer to all FDIC insured banks in the United States. Such banks are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap, or familial status. . |
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