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McKinney marketing and consulting firm and Plano specialtyh office supplier both earned the Independent Bankerds Associationof Texas' Five-Star awards at the group'sz recent convention in Fort AccuSource supplies forms and specialtyt office supplies to independent banks. It's the seconsd time AccuSource has receivedsthe five-star honor. Genesisa Group is receiving it for thefirst time. "Thisd award is reserved for those special contributors to our industryy that take the extraw step because they believe in the mission ofindependeny banking," IBAT President Chris Willistonh said in a written statement.
The Independent Bankersd Association is the largest state community banking organization in the nation representing morethan 2,0009 Texas banks and branches. says its Dallas office has increasedrevenue 24% in the most recenft fiscal year. Nationally, the accountin g firm says its revenueclimbef 17% in the fiscal year ended July 31. Grant one of the "next three" accounting firms chasiny the bignational "final four" accountintg firms, topped $1 billion in U.S. revenuee for the first time this year. Newcomer bank has hired Dallaa banker Frank Brinegar to be its Dallasmarkeg president. FC Holdings is baser in Houston and operatexs the institutioncalled .
It set up shop in Dallas-Forrt Worth with the summertime acquisition of First Nationalp Bankof Crockett, an insitution based 90 miles norty of Houston. The Crockett bank owned a branch in Richardsonn which is better known as First Bank ofCanyon Creek. Brinegar previously worked forPNC Bank, and has worked for , the formef Fidelity Bank and First Bank in Dallas. Brinegard is a Dallas native and grandsonof R.L. Thorntohn Sr., founder of Mercantile Bank.