February 25, 2014 12:00:00 am

Bankers see industry bouncing back

Chris McVay, right, vice president and Longmont market manager of Flagler-based High Plains Bank, said High Plains bankers have “really ramped up on the loan side of things.” Looking on is Mark Driscoll, Colorado market president of First National Bank. Doug Storum

By Beth Potter

BOULDER – The banking business in the Boulder Valley has bounced back, and 2014 looks bright, according to bankers operating in the region.

Commercial and residential real estate lending has picked up – both bread-and-butter businesses of many community banks in the region, according to several bankers. The bankers spoke Feb. 25 at the Boulder County Business Report’s CEO Roundtable on Banking held at the offices of Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP in Boulder.

The bankers’ general optimism follows economic stagnation in the region the last couple of years that was brought on by a national recession that started in 2008.

High…

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