Archive: Blog Articles

10 Ways to Help Create a Smooth Mortgage Closing

The main goal of any mortgage lender is that your home buying experience is stress free, especially on the much-anticipated day your loan closes. Specific lending guidelines must be adhered to in order to have that trouble-free closing. Here are 10 important tips to remember as your closing date approaches: 1. ...read more

Four Ways a Commercial Card Program Can Help Modernize Your Business

In the last few years, though many organizations rushed to digitize, others stuck with legacy processes for their payments because of the perceived time, energy and IT resources required to change. However, implementing the right commercial card program can be easy and the benefits of modernization far outweigh any perceived ...read more

Fraud Education – Payroll Fraud

Today, companies are faced with scams from all fronts, including payroll fraud. Businesses large and small can become targets of this scam. The goal is to have employees’ payroll direct deposits moved to a bank account controlled by the scammer. Social media easily provides enough information about a person’s employment ...read more

Volunteer Spotlight – Michael Love

First Mid is honored to recognize Michael Love, Mortgage Loan Officer in Jefferson City, MO, as our Volunteer Spotlight for March 2024. Michael is committed to supporting local community organizations through volunteerism, consistently demonstrating our core values. What causes are you passionate about supporting through volunteerism? I am passionate about our ...read more

Fraud Education – Romance Scams

Millions of people turn to online dating sites or apps only to encounter scams. Romance scams occur when scammers create fake profiles and strike up relationships with their targets to build their trust, then make up a story and ask for money. Once the scammer has obtained the trust of ...read more

7 Tips to Prevent Tax ID Fraud

As tax season gets underway, the American Bankers Association is urging all consumers to take extra precaution when filing their return to prevent their exposure to tax fraud. “Fraudsters are using very clever tactics to get a hold of your personal information and submit false tax claims,” says the ABA. “Consumers ...read more

Monitoring Your Credit Can Help Protect Your Identity

To make it even easier for our customers to monitor their credit, our Premier Checking account offers ID Protect®1, an identity theft and fraud assistance program that provides credit monitoring and free credit reports. Our complete IDProtect® service includes: 3-in-1 Credit File MonitoringIDProtect® will monitor your Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion credit files ...read more

Are You Keeping Up with Your Financial Fitness?

Taking care of your physical health is extremely important, but it’s also beneficial to keep up with your financial fitness. Your financial fitness determines how much your financial status impacts your day-to-day life, how on track you are towards achieving your financial goals, and if you’re able to cover emergency ...read more