Locally-owned Santa Cruz County bank has announced it has been ranked as an “optimal performer” in the Seifried & Brew 2018 Top 15th Percentile. The bank says the Top 15th Percentile represents a select group of high-performing banks that are made up of the best 782 out of 5,213 community banks in the nation. Within the Top 15th, Santa Cruz County Bank ranked at number 267 nationally and ranked 7th in the Top 10 list for the state of California. To receive this rating, Seifried & Brew said Santa Cruz County Bank demonstrated exemplary performance by managing its exposure to risk while maintaining what it called “a notable level of reward.”
