What Banks Can Learn from the IFC’s Approach to ESG
Understanding multiple existing ESG frameworks and their applications can guide banks toward the path of developing their own distinct methodologies and practices.
Browsing: Culture
The Fully Empowered Banker
By focusing on employee empowerment, banks of all sizes are catalyzing innovation and a healthy workplace culture.
Podcast: Empowering Bank Employees to Build Culture from the Ground Up
Culture is important for every bank, but never more so than when employees are remote amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Pat Weigel discusses how Norway Savings Bank’s employees build its “high-achievement, high-support” culture.
Podcast: A Sharper Focus on Bank Employees’ Well-Being
The trials of the past year required herculean efforts on the part of bank employees to meet their clients’ needs, and they have taken a toll on many bankers. Jennifer Young discusses TD Bank’s “full well-being approach” to supporting employees.
Podcast: Crafting a New Bank Amid COVID-19
When the coronavirus pandemic began, Craft Bank was just about to begin its capital raise as a de novo community bank in Atlanta. With its roadshow about to begin, CEO Ross Mynatt and his small team threw out the playbook and began pivoting.
FDIC Publishes Strategic Plan to Enhance DEI Efforts
The FDIC today released a strategic plan outlining how it will focus its internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion efforts through 2023.
The Telework-Ready Bank
How one bank ensured it could go 100 percent work-from-home in response to the pandemic—without missing a beat.
Podcast: Consciously Cultivating an Internal Talent Pipeline
After her bank’s CEO unexpectedly died a quarter century ago, Annette Russell was suddenly thrust into the top job at Security Federal Savings Bank in Logansport, Indiana. But if Russell has anything to do with it, the next transition won’t be so abrupt.
Retail Banking: A Future Powered by People
To accommodate changing consumer preferences and technology, it’s necessary to shift the retail culture. And that requires a wholesale look at the entire organization—and the removal of barriers between business lines that have existed within banks forever.
Leader Bank Revises the Playbook for Growth
An entrepreneurial culture, an excitement about problem-solving and an insistence on moving quickly explains why Leader Bank continues to grow.