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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

Abrigo

or largely focused on the domestic banking market. If you have an interesting podcast to share, please send it to marketing@abrigo.com. Sometimes 20 minutes, sometimes 50 minutes, this podcast digs into such topics as creating branch experiences that go hand-in-hand with digital ones, identifying risk, and consumer lending.

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Southern Bancorp is building wealth for everyone

Independent Banker

approached him about a leadership position in 2013. Relyance is working to increase its mortgage lending but sometimes isn’t able to make loans for some customers. Williams explains that the involvement with GABV has impelled Southern Bancorp’s leadership to find ways to reduce the bank’s carbon footprint. Assets: $2 billion.

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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

An entrepreneur with a background in accounting and finance, CEO and chairman of the board Thomas Swenson set up Montana Business Capital Corporation in 1998 with a focus on job creation and economic development lending. Our leadership consistently articulates and demonstrates a commitment to being a great place to work.”.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. It’s time to toast the conquerors and skewer the laggards, GonzoBankers. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks.

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Six Smart Steps

Independent Banker

Specifically, they seek short-term tactics that will free up funds for margin-increasing activities—like hiring new lending officers, pursuing new marketing programs or purchasing new technology. Today’s examiners expect boards and executive leadership teams to take an active role in promoting a culture of compliance.

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Nurturing New Businesses

Independent Banker

Of course, community banks are the primary economic engines behind small businesses on Main Street America, funding more than 60 percent of all small-business lending. Some startups may be the brainchild of an engineers with a feature-rich product, but with no idea how to market it or even if a market exists for their gee-whiz product.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. The score combines the average of the bank’s percentile rank for lending concentration and for loan growth over the past year in each lending category. By Ed Avis. Methodology. AGRICULTURE.