Increasingly, banks in areas affected by these crimes have started to lock their lobby doors during business hours; robbers have responded by moving their nefarious activities to surrounding communities. [Continue]
Online lender Social Finance stomped onto the banking scene last year when it announced its application for a banking charter. The banking industry vowed to stop the Silicon Valley company — then led by CEO and co-founder Mike Cagney — from cutting into its turf, yet nothing seemed to stand in the path of Cagney and his SoFi juggernaut. [Continue]
Kurt Yost’s belief in community banking has served him well through 34 years of advocacy that commenced during contentious times and concludes as the industry grapples with the rapid pace of change. [Continue]
Banking sales coach Matt Middendorp on what makes bankers cool, his formula for sales success, prospecting through social media, and building a mastermind network. [Continue]
Equity Bancshares, which operates the Equity Bank franchise from its base in Wichita, Kan., is a relatively young holding company, formed in 2002. Since then it has completed nearly 20 mergers and acquisitions, and sees little point in slowing down. [Continue]
Steve Daggett, president and CEO of Midwest Bank, Detroit Lakes, Minn., talks about how his bank overcame asset quality issues, his approach to today’s funding challenges, and why he thinks regulators who see brokered deposits as a problem are missing the mark. [Continue]
Kevin Forristall of TS Banking Group in Treynor, Iowa, talks about his bank’s data-driven approach to balance sheet management, its agnostic approach to growth, and committing 10 percent of pre-tax profits back into the community. [Continue]
Anita Drentlaw always knew being involved with the family bank was a career possibility – she’s been attending industry meetings since her pre-kindergarten days – but her path to the corner office at New Market Bank wasn’t supposed to happen quite as quickly as it did. [Continue]
“Robotics is huge,” said Curtis Drozd, a third-generation corn, soybean and sorghum farmer in the southwestern Michigan town of Allegan. Drozd has invested in unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, and GPS-integrated auto-steering computers on his tractors. Lest you think Drozd’s auto-steer system is rugged and reliable enough to allow his tractor to autonomously start itself in the barn, drive to the field, and complete plowing or planting all while he attends to other tasks on the farm, Drozd is quick to clarify: We still need the farmer. [Continue]
Caleb Sekavec brings an outlook steeped in a competitive and propitious spirit to his role as senior vice president and commercial/ag loan officer at First National Bank, Garden City, Kan. [Continue]