An Iowa bank, hit by bad farm loans, closed.
Iowa became the nation’s leader in bank closings with the failure of the Story County State Bank, the 20th to collapse this year because of farm loan losses. The bank, which has $132.1 million on deposit in 6,500 accounts, was bought by SSB Banchares of Marshalltown and reopened Friday.
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