For many financial institutions, using cloud-based applications is the only way they can affordably and effectively deploy the products younger generations desire. They can help attract and keep them as employees, too. [Continue]
Minnesota banker Aleesha Webb, vice chair of the board at Village Bank, St. Francis, Minn., shares how she’s nurtured her leadership talents and offers others advice on how they might someday lead too. [Continue]
Bankers certainly don’t need the additional recordkeeping responsibilities, and I can’t believe when it passed tax reform that Congress wanted to create a significant tax difference between sub S and C corp banks. [Continue]
What makes a strong Enterprise Risk Management program? How do you know you’re asking the right questions? You develop strong risk assessments. [Continue]
Leading women in banking share how they nurture their own talents, what leadership characteristics are most valued at their banks, and what advice they would give their younger selves. [Continue]
Technology has changed banking — retail bank visits are forecasted to drop by 36 percent by 2022 while mobile transactions are expected to increase 121 percent — and it’s changed how customers interact with their banks. [Continue]
The 2018 World Series starts tomorrow. What do Major League Baseball and the banking industry have in common? Data analytics. Here’s what bankers can learn from America’s pastime. [Continue]
Between affordability, customer comfort and budget-watching, video technology’s time in the sun has arrived for community banks. We present a quick introduction to interactive teller machines. [Continue]
The best way to approach management succession planning is by taking a broad perspective. Instead of focusing on the potential problem of succession planning for top positions, consider a talent management program to address succession planning at all levels. [Continue]
As more and more banks take advantage of convergent technologies and cross marketing, including retail banking, investing, insurance, mortgage and college financing, they’re pushing the hell out of “tell and sell” — and pushing consumers right to the edge. [Continue]