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Community banks and credit unions need to recognize and tout the distinct advantages they offer advisors as they compete with bigger financial institutions for top talent, says Frank Smith, vice president of Recruitment at LPL Financial Institution Services.

Distressed-bank rollups were all the rage among private-equity and hedge fund investors in the early days of the financial crisis. The results have been decidedly mixed, as the following examples illustrate.

Here we take a fresh look at our Top 50 and Next 50 Bank Advisors and list the top 25 based solely on percentage increase in production on a year-over-year basis.

Hundreds of bankers gathered in Honolulu earlier this month for the Independent Community Bankers of America conference, trying to reconcile their sense that the economy is back on track with their concerns about costly regulations and unfair competition. The following is an overview of the conflicting messages they shared and heard.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Asset growth is still the name of the game—here are the best in the bank channel.

Regulatory, recruiting and retirement issues dominated the agenda at the annual BISA conference. Here are some of the smartest things we heard from economists, executives and other industry leaders during the well-attended three-day event.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Here's a new look at our top bank advisors based on their ratios of trailing-12 production per assets-under-management.

Branches are vital to attracting new customers and cross-selling to existing ones, but they're also expensive. Some banks continue to add branches, but most institutions are focused on pruning their networks to cut costs.