May 11, 2018
On May 15, 1978, I reported for a summer job at Feliciana Bank, a community bank in downtown Norwood, Louisiana. My previous summers were spent stacking green lumber at a sawmill and shoveling, uh, by-product, at a stockyard. The bank job had the decided appeal of being clean, cool and considerably more prestigious.
January 25, 2017
This is a special New Year at the Bank of Zachary as we begin 2017 with a new leader at the helm. One day after his 38th birthday, Mark S. Marionneaux became the 8th President in our 112 year history. In addition to his relative youth, Mark brings enthusiasm and a clear-eyed vision to our venerable institution.
October 4, 2016
Offers Six Tips to Help Safeguard Consumer Data
Washington, D.C. (Sept. 30, 2016)—Americans rely more than ever on their smart devices for banking, shopping or social networking, making the need to safeguard sensitive information and prevent unauthorized use by cybercriminals paramount.
September 26, 2016
The community bank way of doing business, true for all small businesses, requires that we treat our customers well or we will not have customers. It’s that simple, though our legislators and regulators sometimes fail to understand that this is the way the real free market is supposed to work.
June 15, 2016
Investing in home ownership is the single largest financial transaction most of us will ever participate in.
May 24, 2016
By Preston L. Kennedy, President/CEO, Bank of Zachary
(From an address to the 116th Annual Convention of the Louisiana Bankers Association, May 12, 2016)
March 30, 2016
Small business owners often find themselves with an opportunity to grow their business. This growth typically creates a need for capital, whether it be to expand to a new location or purchase additional equipment. Applying for a bank loan could be the solution, however many business owners view this process as stressful and time consuming.
January 15, 2016
Community banks take pride in establishing relationships with their customers, and the Bank of Zachary is no exception. Nothing pleases us more than developing generations of loyal customers, and serving our friends and neighbors inside our banking offices.
November 25, 2015
As we approach Thanksgiving Day, I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to those who make the Bank of Zachary more than just another business.
July 6, 2015
As we approach midsummer, Bank of Zachary and the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA), representing the nation’s more than 6,000 community banks, are providing consumers with the information they need to help keep their money secure before they plan for their next vacation.
February 20, 2015
In January, I had the privilege of announcing that the Bank of Zachary elected two new officers. Ruth Ann Kuhns is our new Loan Operations Officer and Renee Deshotels is now Assistant Cashier.
November 24, 2014
With holiday cheer and spending just around the corner, the Bank of Zachary joins the Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) in encouraging consumers to Go Local this holiday season with their purchasing, dining and spending. By supporting small businesses throughout the holidays, consumers will be putting money back to work in their communities.
May 23, 2014
Memorial Day is set aside in remembrance of the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. In observance of Memorial Day, the Bank of Zachary will be closed Monday, May 26.
April 3, 2014
This is “loser talk” and I’m sick of it. Too small to succeed? We may be too small to do what the largest banks can do (thank God), but the Wall Street Journal doesn’t know much about the community bankers I know if they dare to say we are “too small to succeed”.
January 17, 2014
I was elated to hear that the marker on the old oak tree, transformed by chain saw artist Burt Fleming into the Freedom Eagle, has been re-discovered by a new generation of Zachary citizens.
March 19, 2013
Washington, D.C. (March 18, 2013)—The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today said that there is mounting evidence that too-big-to-fail financial institutions pose risks to the financial system, enjoy a taxpayer-funded funding advantage over smaller institutions and receive favorable treatment from regulators. To address these and other problems posed by the largest and riskiest financial firms, ICBA believes they should be downsized and split up.
March 8, 2013
Paperless Software Platform Brings Additional Convenience for Customers and Savings of Time and Money for East Baton Rouge Parish’s Oldest Chartered Bank
February 26, 2013
We frequently feature articles in this space, and on our Facebook and Twitter pages, detailing the wretched excess of the Too Big To Fail and Too Big To Jail financial institutions. But the Bank of Zachary does more than just complain. Through our community bank trade association, we actively advocate for common sense regulation that will allow us to compete with any size institution.
February 1, 2013
Red is the color of the day at Bank of Zachary as we joined the millions of Americans in a nationwide effort in saving women from heart disease, their No. 1 killer. This will be the 10th National Wear Red Day since the American Heart Association (AHA) launched Go Red For Women® in 2004 to dispel myths and raise awareness about heart disease, which today claims about one life per minute.
January 28, 2013
For many homeowners, or prospective homeowners, spring is the ideal season to explore the major decision of buying, building or renovating a home. If one of these things is on your mind, we would like to invite you to meet with the lending professionals at the Bank of Zachary.
January 4, 2013
The Bank of Zachary enters the New Year with a renewed sense of commitment to our four constituent groups: Our Community, Customers, Employees and Shareholders.
As always, the Bank of Zachary will be involved with the community we serve. Our staff will be recognizable at nearly every public event, but more importantly they will be quietly working behind the scenes in hundreds of ways to make our community a better place to live and work.
December 18, 2012
Washington DC has two lumps of coal for community banks this Christmas season. First, a group of Senators used a dubious conclusion from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to raise a procedural point of order to kill a two-year extension of the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) program. TAG was an emergency measure enacted at the height of the financial crisis to temporarily extend unlimited FDIC deposit insurance to all non-interest bearing accounts. This program leveled a very small piece of the playing field, allowing community banks to keep deposits that would otherwise flee to the safety of megabanks declared to be Systemically Important Financial Institutions. While community banks fought to extend this temporary guarantee, the megabanks cynically sought to have it eliminated, knowing that these deposits would eventually migrate to the safe harbor provided by Too Big To Fail status. In the end, some Senators hypocritically hid behind the same CBO that they excoriated during the healthcare debate in order to do the bidding of their masters on Wall Street, to the detriment of Main Street. Sure, the Senators who killed TAG will claim that they were looking out for the taxpayer by ending a crisis-era “bailout”, but in fact they were eliminating competition for a favored constituent group, the Too Big To Fail banks.
November 29, 2012
The conversion to our new Online Banking system will begin this Friday, November 30, and will be completed by the morning of Wednesday, December 5. We ask for your patience and cooperation as we bring these enhancements to you.
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