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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic. 2021 fintech investments, merger activities, and overall focus were off the charts. Two, read and enjoy the 2021 GonzoBanker awards, our annual take on the best things we saw during the year. THE BANKER AWARDS. Doug Larson. So, we have two things to add to the to-do list.

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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. Expect more cost-driven MOEs in 2021! “I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.” ” – Hunter Thompson. Everything.

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Best Banking Books To Create The Modern Banker

South State Correspondent

Since many bankers likely have a self-improvement goal in their New Year’s resolutions, we wanted to put out our recommendations right from the start. To do this, we teamed up with Jack Hubbard, Managing Partner of the Modern Banker , to bring you our collective favorites.

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Efficiency now: 8 smart strategy tips

Independent Banker

In 2022, things changed with whiplash speed, as the Fed hiked interest rates to quell inflation, the mortgage refinance market dried up and the effects of macro changes, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a talent shortage, began to be felt keenly. Illustration by Jill DeHaan. By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.

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Top Banking Challenges: Finding Growth in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

Takeaway 1 Financial institutions that invested in technology in 2020 are using it to increase the loan portfolio in 2021. Independent Banker Survey. Growing loans, earnings are banks' top challenges in 2021. Technology sets up future lending success. Here's what they're doing. Pandemic-Induced Transformations.

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10 Data-Driven Ideas To Increase Branch Engagement

South State Correspondent

The concept that we allow the customer to choose how they want to bank often enables the bank to be passive in its position and give up agency. What used to take $160 million in deposits to break even back in early 2021 now takes closer to $40 million. Branching, for example, is too expensive to be all things to all people.

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Bright Paths Students Demonstrate New Skills with Incredible Variety of Apps

Perficient

Within Perficient, our culture is known as being “helpful, supportive, and friendly” (Best Places to Work survey, 2021), and these students exhibited the type of encouragement and celebration that motivate and inspire the amazing work we do at Perficient, and, in this case, beyond. . Learn More About Perficient’s Bright Paths. ” . .

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