When Will Retail Banking Return to ‘Normal’? Should It?
The time is right to leverage the experiences of the past few months to make significant and sustainable changes to the branch environment.
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Ag Banker Frank Bruning, Industry Icon, Dies at 94
By Ed Elfmann The agricultural banking community lost an industry icon with the passing of…
ABA Data Bank: 7 in 10 Small Businesses Nationally Have Received PPP Loans
“In less than two months, the PPP is supporting the employment of apprimately 50 million workers.”—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
FDIC: Minority Bank Performance Remained Sound in 2019
Financial performance among minority depository institutions remained sound through the end of 2019, according to the FDIC’s annual report on preserving and promoting MDIs.
Podcast: All Hands on Deck to Deliver PPP Funds
In a matter of days, bankers rallied to deliver hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to support Americans’ jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic. The stakes: the survival of the small business economy on which every bank and community relies.
‘We Were Economic First Responders’
The Paycheck Protection Program was the largest economic rescue program in American history. Go behind the scenes with the bankers who delivered the relief.
Emotionally Invested
In today’s volatile market environment, wealth managers and financial planners are having hard conversations with their clients. A few tips to build emotional intelligence into those conversations.
Powell: Ameribor ‘Fully Appropriate’ for Banks When It Reflects Cost of Funding
While the Federal Reserve continues to support the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as the Alternative Reference Rates Committee’s preferred alternative to the London Interbank Offered Rate, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said that Ameribor is a “fully appropriate” alternative for banks when it reflects their cost of funds.
Podcast: Behind the Scenes with a Community Bank’s PPP Loans
Through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, banks delivered the biggest economic rescue program in U.S. history. Luke Bernstein, EVP at Orrstown Bank in Orrstown, Pennsylvania, discusses his bank’s PPP lending.
Lessons in Loss: Ag Lenders on Surviving Tough Times
As a record expansion ground to a halt, a whole new generation of bankers has had no experience with a down cycle. What can bankers nationwide learn from the challenged agricultural economy of the past decade about the role of emotional intelligence in banking?