Go to watch the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons or MLS’s Atlanta United FC play a game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and be prepared to use a credit or debit card or your phone to pay for everything. Whether you want a burger or a jersey, your cash is useless. [Continue]
The opioid epidemic washing across the country has impacted thousands of lives, including those of children in the Sioux Falls area. Krista Tschetter is working to make sure they’re not alone. [Continue]
Erin Procko is no stranger to trail blazing: she is the first female market president at Bell Bank, one of the largest privately-owned banks in the country and was a key player in Bell’s move into the Minneapolis market. Procko was instrumental in building the Fargo, N.D.-based Bell’s lending presence in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, beginning from scratch in 2012. [Continue]
Keeping a small town afloat requires lots of moving cogs and cooperation, and few people know this better than Christie Obenauer, president and CEO of Union State Bank of Hazen, N.D. Egos, even among competitors, must be checked at the door. [Continue]
It’s no secret that at banks across the country — big and small — most of the people sitting in the CEO’s seat or on the board have traditionally been men. Yet, some community banks have quietly redrawn that blueprint by offering workplace initiatives, such as family friendliness, flexibility and mentoring opportunities, which foster female leadership. [Continue]
Jessica Carroll credits her mother for getting her into banking. Carroll, the first female CEO at the century-old Charleston, Ind.-based New Washington State Bank, was a child when her mom worked there as a teller. When Carroll was in college, her mom got her into the bank on a part-time basis. [Continue]
Lori Raabe has worn many hats in her three-plus decade banking career: Teller, personal banker, mortgage lender, business development officer, SBA lender, branch manager, taxidermist. Okay, that last role is figurative. [Continue]
Peg Scott doesn’t play the blame game but neither does she settle. It was an inclination toward positive action which sparked Scott to pursue a college degree as a non-traditional student after being passed over for a promotion, spurred her to assemble a group of investors to buy the bank where she worked, and inspired her to be a leader with the Iowa Bankers Association. [Continue]
In 1981, The Buggles put MTV on the map as their song,“Video Killed the Radio Star,” became the first music video to air on the now legendary network. Entertainers were concerned that videos would change the music industry, leaving some of them unable to compete in an increasingly visual age. In 2019, has video banking come for the traditional bank teller? [Continue]
A customer-centric culture and having capital to serve a market are tried-and-true ways to achieve steady organic growth. To drive exponential growth like 40-year-old President and CEO David Saber is doing requires a strategic X-factor. And capital. Park Financial Group has both in Andy Redleaf, its primary shareholder. [Continue]