Your 2024 cybersecurity word of the year? Consistency.
BankBeat recently spoke with Jeremy Pogue, director of security services at Integris, about the subject of security. [Continue]
Print Issue: 2024-February
Liquidity planning in a digital age
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank almost a year ago demonstrated the damaging consequences of an old-fashioned bank run when combined with the latest digital technology. [Continue]
How 2023’s talent trends informs 2024’s hiring decisions
Brian Love, head of banking and fintech at executive search and talent advisory firm Travillian, discusses the trends that will define this year’s hiring market. [Continue]
The bank marketer’s tightrope: AI, automation, generations and sponsorships
There are four common areas that can trip up even the best laid marketing plan. [Continue]
Regulatory red sky dawns at the beginning of 2024
We’ve navigated rough seas before. If we remain united, stay focused and remain positive, we can survive everything that 2024 has to throw at us. [Continue]
Speed and convenience continue to drive payments in 2024
At the heart of community banking are your customers. It’s likely that every decision made about the products and services offered centers around a positive customer experience — while at the same time attracting the next generation of clientele. [Continue]
Minnesota bank expands to Montana with customer-focused growth strategy
Forty years have passed between Citizens Alliance Bank’s first bank acquisition — made in the early 1980s when the bank was known as Citizens State Bank of Clara City, Minn. — and its most recent, closed last summer. [Continue]
Three key innovation areas to watch in 2024
In the financial landscape, 2023 will be remembered as a historic year with high-profile regional bank failures, a steady stream of Fed interest rate hikes, the explosion of generative AI and machine learning (ML), and many other significant events and shifts. [Continue]
Recession on the horizon?
Economists and bankers expect GDP growth will slow this year amid an ongoing exodus of Covid-19 stimulus dollars from the market and the impact of numerous interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve to cool inflation. Beyond that, the scope of a recession — or whether one will even occur — is subject to extensive debate. [Continue]
State Filings-Midwest (February 2024)
State filings were submitted in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wisconsin. [Continue]