First Bank hires new mortgage home loan consultant

Mike Rice has joined First Bank Mortgage as a mortgage home loan consultant. His office is located at First Bank’s Carbondale branch, 1500 W. Main S).

Rice, who has 30 years of banking and finance experience, will be responsible for originating mortgages for home purchases and refinances.

Rice is a member of the Egyptian Board of Realtors and lives in Elkville, Ill.

First Bank firstbanks.com is one of the largest privately owned banks in the country with $5.93 billion in assets and over 100 locations in Illinois, Missouri, and California.

— The Illinois Business Journal