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Podcast: ABA Banking Journal Podcast
Episode: How a Georgia community bank supports government-guaranteed lending nationwide
Description: Government-guaranteed lending requires special expertise and back-office functionality that grows increasingly expensive for smaller banks. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by Bix2x — Chris Hurn and Jeremy Gilpin of Community Bankshares, a bank holding company in La Grange, Georgia, discuss how they are tackling that challenge. "To start one of these departments is very expensive for a lot of rural banks and credit unions," says Gilpin, "It's very prohibitive to enter the market space if you are a rural bank or even in an urban market where you do you know, maybe...