Insights

Is Your Bank Positioned to Benefit from the Continued Rise in Market Interest Rates?

Times are looking pretty good for community financial institutions.  While we can always find something to complain about, we are working within an environment where Washington is beginning to ease […]


Pricing Discipline in a Rising Rate Environment

Guest: Joel Rosenberg, Managing Director – Client Success and Delivery at PrecisionLender Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In Banking (TMIB) podcast features […]


Are Your Priorities in Sync with Your Peers?

Guest: Steve Powless, Chairman and CEO, CSI Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In Banking (TMIB) podcast features discussion with colleagues and other […]


Indirect Lending-Are You In or Out? / Tax Reform and the Banking Industry

Guest: Charles Guarino, Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing, and Chief Lending Executive, Five Star Bank Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In […]


Will Your Bank Be Independent and Relevant in Fifteen Years?

As 2017 enters the history books, it’s hard to believe that Y2K was eighteen years ago.  We all remember the furor over how the world might come to an end.  […]


Crisis Management / Banking’s Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders / Bitcoin Mania

Guest: Hart S. Brown, Executive Vice President and COO of Firestorm Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In Banking (TMIB) podcast features discussion […]


Banking Is a Team Sport / Zelle / Public Bank for New Jersey?

Guest: Anne Deeter Gallaher, Owner/CEO of Deeter Gallaher Group LLC Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Show Notes: Our This Month In Banking (TMIB) podcast features discussion with […]


Abacus: Small Enough to Jail – A New Documentary

Join us for a conversation with Jill Sung, Abacus Bank President and CEO, and Vera Sung, Director and Closing Attorney at Abacus Guests: Jill Sung, President and CEO, Abacus Bank; […]


TB or Not TB? Is that THE Question?

In the early stages of Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s epic 15th century play, the protagonist says “To be or not to be, that is the question.”  Through this phrase, Hamlet questioned […]


Community Banking and Hurricane Relief / Equifax Breach / Community Banks That Break the Mold

Guests: R. Scott Heitkamp, Chairman of Independent Community Bankers of America ® (ICBA) and President and CEO of ValueBank Texas; Carrie Heitkamp Quality Assurance at ValueBank Texas Listen on Spotify […]