Aleesha Webb’s 3 insights on leadership

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]

IRS should affirm sub S deduction

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]

Iowa bank finds success serving Amish community

“We have to be accommodative to their beliefs and honestly examine ourselves as a business to determine what is really core to our relationship needs,” explains Iowa banker Dan Thompson of the business his bank has built with the local Amish community. [Continue]

First Interstate hits Durbin threshold with Cascade buy

What price the Durbin Amendment? Well, if you’re First Interstate BancSystem Inc., about $3.3 million per quarter from a reduction in payment services revenue. That calculation by the Billings, Mont.-based operator of First Interstate Bank comes as the impact of Durbin kicked in at the bank starting in July. [Continue]