12/24/2020: Year in review: What pandemic? St. Louis banks post higher profits, buy and expand in 2020
ST. LOUIS — Despite the pandemic and related economic turmoil, St. Louis area banks increased profits, expanded geographically, continued to buy competitors, and selected a new generation of leaders.
Banks and credit unions also continued to expand geographically in the year of the pandemic. At Bank of Belleville, a three-county expansion is underway, with the addition of full-service banks in in Clinton, Monroe and Madison counties, as well as its St. Clair County headquarters.
