Community Bank Leadership Regional Strategy 
Gonzobanker
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Financial institutions standing in 2030 will have completed a significant and gut-wrenching transformation of their leadership talent. Every year, digitization further rattles the relevancy of the traditional hierarchical banking organization. That’s the new DNA we need to increase across the banking industry.
Independent Banker
JULY 31, 2022
These community banks share how they have (or haven’t) altered their hiring strategies. According to the BLS, “quit levels and rates” by employees is higher in all employment sectors than it is in “finance and insurance” specifically, which is where community banks would fall (see table below). By William Atkinson.
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South State Correspondent
APRIL 19, 2023
For example, while banks in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. Some small banks, for example, do nothing more than have their CEO call the largest depositors twice per year to check in and thank them. This is one of the great mysteries of community banking. It starts with articulating a strategy.
Gonzobanker
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Gonzobanker
DECEMBER 19, 2022
In January, we were discussing crypto and the need to formulate customer crypto strategies. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Goes to Blue Ridge Bank for bringing a ton of regulatory attention to the BaaS space.
American Banker
MAY 26, 2016
A community bank CEO takes a contrarian approach to underperforming branches, staffing up instead of closing them down, and Bank of the West embeds star employees at nonprofits as leadership training.
Gonzobanker
DECEMBER 17, 2021
We know the customer buying and use of financial services is being fundamentally changed by fintech, but our long-term strategies to invest/partner/buy/compete are very much works in progress. The merger of equals activity in 2021 was sky high, primarily because banks with pinched margins from low rates worked to grabbed scale.
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