
The test of leadership
Meet ABA’s first class of Emerging Leader Award winners.
Meet ABA’s first class of Emerging Leader Award winners.
“We’re a small bank, and it gets more expensive all the time to run a small community bank,” says Andy Anderson, president and CEO of Bank of Anguilla in Anguilla, Mississippi. “As long as we can do this profitably and remain in our community, that’s what we want to do.”
Meet Saleem Iqbal, ABA’s Community Bankers Council chair.
What’s on the banking industry’s policy radar for 2023? ABA’s Government Relations Council recently met in Washington, D.C., and GRC Chair Cathy Owen recaps the topics of consideration as the association prepares its banker-led Blueprint for Growth for the coming year.
ABA supports the proposed changes’ goals, but said without refinement they would have unintended consequences, particularly in rural areas.
More than half of community bankers in a recent survey cited small business loans as a high priority in 2022, with most small business owners saying in the same poll that they plan to borrow an average of $2 million over the next two years.
While borrowers are getting pinched by rising interest rates, senior savers are seeing meaningful returns for the first time in decades, former ABA Chair Laurie Stewart said in an interview on NPR’s “Marketplace” program last night.
As the end of the year draws near, banking journalist and analyst Paul Davis joins the ABA Banking Journal Podcast to discuss the bank mergers and acquisitions outlook for 2023.
More banks are turning again to wholesale funding and hedging to limit volatility in their liabilities.
As some banks weigh ditching their holding companies, there are a few considerations for how and why publicly traded banks can file Exchange Act reports directly with their regulatory agencies.