Strategic Retention
What bank boards need to know about their role in overseeing benefit programs that retain key bank employees.
Browsing: Directors
Mission Critical
How military veterans are helping bank boards think strategically, react nimbly and work as a team.
Growing into Growth
How one community bank has added directors as its business complexity increased.
Must the Bank Update the Loan Estimate if It Becomes Aware of Increases to Fees Unrelated to Extension of Rate Lock Agreement?
Questions and answers from the July/August 2021 ABA Regulatory Policy and Compliance Inbox.
CECL’s First Wave Offers Insights for Smaller Banks
Many banks have until January 1, 2023 before they must implement the current expected credit loss standard, or CECL. But it’s not too soon to start gleaning lessons from larger institutions that are already utilizing the new standard.
ABA, Trade Groups Urge Senate to Pass Board Diversity Bill
The American Bankers Association joined several other financial trade groups in urging the House Committee on Financial Services to advance H.R. 1277, the Improving Corporate Governance through Diversity Act of 2021.
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.
Declaration of Independence
Alabama businessman Cecil Batchelor marks half a century as chairman of CB&S Bank, which he remains committed to keeping independent.
Podcast: How One Community Bank Opens Opportunities for Career Growth
As an early-career CPA, Carissa Rodeheaver began her community banking career as a trust administrator nearly three decades ago. Now, she’s at the same bank, as chairman, president and CEO of Oakland, Maryland-based First United Bank and Trust.
Hiring Directors, Halting Bias: Ideas for Improving Diversity
Does your bank board mirror your market? Mounting pressure for banks to better reflect their communities is prompting banks to rethink director recruitment.