Leaders should model a healthy work-life balance
As leaders gain self-awareness and decide that busyness is not a virtue, they’ll begin to model a healthy work-life balance, and their teams will follow their example. [Continue]
Print Issue: 2024-November edition
Outstanding Women 2024: Kris Robbins
Kris Robbins is known around First Interstate Bank by her laugh. [Continue]
The benefits of updated payments systems
BankBeat recently talked to Angela Murphy, vice president of marketing and solutions for fintech Pidgin, about the current landscape of payment technology. [Continue]
Durbin adds heat to interchange battle in Illinois
The drama over debit and credit card payments in Illinois got a little hotter last month when Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) issued a press release in support of the controversial Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. [Continue]
Outstanding Women 2024: Jacqueline Ruge-Perkins
From the same office her grandmother once occupied, Jacqueline Ruge-Perkins, president and CEO of First State Bank of Porter, Ind., embodies the spirit of the bank’s one-time matriarch, leading with the belief that what’s good for the community is good for the $160 million bank. [Continue]
Outstanding Women 2024: Laura Wildenborg
As the climate continues to churn out headline-generating crises, it feels almost trite to posit that a bank account can be part of the solution. [Continue]
Outstanding Women 2024: Kathy Headley
Kathy Headley sets an example for operational excellence at a community bank, for which she has been named one of BankBeat’s “Outstanding Women in Banking.” [Continue]
The fate of the farm bill remains in flux
As the ag economy remains in flux, uncertainty lingers on whether Congress will pass a new farm bill or extend the current version of the bill for another year. [Continue]
Strong harvest expected amid low commodity prices
Recent warm and dry weather across the Upper Midwest is bolstering expectations of a strong harvest season. That outcome, however, could exacerbate already low commodities prices, leaving farmers with a surplus in storage as next year approaches. [Continue]
Outstanding Women 2024: Terri Barrett
Terri Barrett was raised to believe she could do whatever she wanted, regardless of what stood in her way. [Continue]