The Bank of Vernon is headquartered in Vernon, Alabama. It was the first bank chartered by the newly formed Alabama Banking Department on November 11, 1911. It is an independently owned and operated community bank with C.D.F.I. & C.D.E. status. It operates multiple full-service branches serving a rural part of Northwest Alabama and Northeast Mississippi. The bank has assets exceeding $275 million in 2022 and maintains an emphasis on modern facilities and technology to better serve its customers.

First Security Bank opened its doors in 1952 with just $50,000, five people, and a single Batesville, Mississippi location. Today, with over 200 employees and assets of more than $475 million, the bank operates 15 locations and serves five counties in North Mississippi. But the bank's guiding principle has remained the same: to provide genuine, personal service to each person who walks through its doors. 

One of the South’s fastest-growing financial institutions did not originate in a large, metropolitan area or grow with the usual bank business plan. Community Bancshares of Mississippi, Inc., started more than 100 years ago in a small timber community in east central Mississippi and has grown by employing a unique approach to one of America’s most routine industries. From 1995 until today, with few acquisitions, Community Bancshares has grown from $200 million in assets and a couple of offices to more than $2.4 billion in assets, 40 offices and over 660 employees in four states.

Since 1904 Bank of Kilmichael has been committed to community banking and to our local towns and cities. If there’s one thing we've learned over these past 100-plus years of serving our customers, it’s that friendly goes a long way. A long way toward keeping our customers loyal year after year, generation after generation. It goes a long way toward distinguishing us from other banks. And it goes a long way toward bringing customers to us from far and wide.

At New Haven Bank, we pledge our resources and capabilities to support our neighbors and neighborhood. We've done that since the beginning. We continue to be advocates for the financial success and well-being of New Haven. The bank serves as a catalyst for economic and social improvement.

Founded in 1904, United Bank is a community bank that is deeply rooted in the communities it serves through its 17 branches. The bank’s community development initiatives are directed towards improving the social and economic conditions of the distressed communities and underserved individuals throughout rural southwest Alabama and northwest Florida. United Bank is a certified Community Development Financial Institution, and was a recipient of the 2011 FDIC Chairman’s Award for Excellence for developing a checking account for consumers with low or no credit scores.

Sunrise Banks, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, seeks to radically change the way urban communities and underserved people thrive by empowering them to achieve their aspirations. Sunrise uses a “do good” approach to business with products that make a difference in communities. Sunrise Banks believes that using business as a force for good can multiply impact. Sunrise Banks is a Certified B Corp, a certification granted to organizations that demonstrate a commitment to transparent corporate governance, environmental stewardship and positive community impact.

Southern Bancorp, Inc. is one of America’s largest rural development banks with approximately $1.1 billion in assets, serving over 80,000 customers at 39 branches in both Arkansas and Mississippi. Southern was founded in 1986 by then Governor Bill Clinton, Wal-Mart Chair Rob Walton, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and others who were concerned about the economic decline of rural Arkansas. Southern invests in people and businesses in rural communities, empowers them to improve their lives and helps them transform their communities. 

OneUnited Bank, with offices in California, Florida and Massachusetts, is the premier bank for urban communities. Its mission is to provide affordable financial services to support economic development in urban communities and to maintain superior financial performance to maximize shareholder value. As the first Black online bank and the first Black interstate bank in the country, OneUnited Bank unites urban communities to share ideas, technology and management resources to better meet the banking needs of inner city communities.