“Idaho Community Banks Grow Stronger In First Quarter”

Idaho community banks improved the quality of their loan portfolios in the first quarter of 2012, helping produce their highest first-quarter profits since 2008.

A quarterly report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows a slightly brightening picture for Idaho’s community banks after many of them were hard hit by the recession and a collapsing real estate market that left them holding problem loans.

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