Jay P. Titus has been promoted to Executive Vice President with BancorpSouth. He has been with BancorpSouth for four years and has more than 18 years of banking industry experience.

As a Regional Senior Lender with BancorpSouth, Mr. Titus oversees the bank’s lending portfolio in the Missouri region and assists clients with a variety of financial needs. His office is within the Battlefield branch of BancorpSouth, located at 3211 E. Battlefield Road in Springfield. Mr. Titus received a Bachelor of Science degree with departmental honors in business administration from Drury University and is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School, Seattle, Wash. He is actively involved with Leadership Springfield and the Springfield Apartment and Housing Association.

BancorpSouth, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, with $13.1 billion in assets. BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc., operates 293 commercial banking, mortgage, insurance, trust and broker/dealer locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, including an insurance location in Illinois.

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