Community banking

A financial editor is creating a premium encyclopedia-style article for Diversification.com about Community banking. The article needs to define community banking, discuss its history, provide key takeaways, explain its interpretation, offer a hypothetical example, detail practical applications, highlight limitations, compare it to a related term, and answer FAQs. The article must be in markdown format, exceed Investopedia's quality, and all sources, especially external links, must be real, relevant, and verifiable. The editor must also create a hidden LINK_POOL of 15 unique internal links and 4 real, live external links from at least three different trusted domains.

The editor has asked me to auto-infer:

• [TERM]: Community banking
• [RELATED_TERM]: Credit union
• [TERM_CATEGORY]: Banking and Financial Services

The editor has provided input for [TERM]. I will now proceed with building the LINK_POOL and then writing the article.

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