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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet. THE BANKER AWARDS The Bank Acquisition of the Year – goes to the unique PacWest and Banc of California deal. Employees are back to work. We are in awe.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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All of you with your hands up… … uh huh. It would have required a few trips to the local dispensary to dream up what bankers have endured this year. 1 issue raised by CEOs in our surveys, bankers had to craft a new and compelling post-Covid value proposition to attract it. OK, show of hands. Pull ’em down. Nobody did.

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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

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Under the leadership of CEO Randell Leach, Beneficial State Bank is pursuing an ambitious mission of financial activism and strong corporate values. Photo: Ashley Courter. The idea that community banking can be a force for positive change is at the heart of Beneficial State Bank, which engages its customers through financial activism.

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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

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Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. “I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.” ” – Hunter Thompson. Well, HST and Big Bird had it right. Everything.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

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A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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THE 16TH ANNUAL GONZOBANKER AWARDS

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A deep mistrust is growing for anything that feels bureaucratic or obfuscated, and bankers stand at a crossroads as to where they may fall in this shakeout. In the post-Wells-scandal world where the shift from people and bricks to machines and digital is getting very real, bankers are scrambling to build new generations of their businesses.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

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While the Gonzo team loves to celebrate our mid-size entrepreneurial banks who “stick it to the man,” we also need to extend a GonzoBanker salute to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company.