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Charles Potts: Innovation trends for 2023

Independent Banker

Image by Worawut/Adobe By Charles Potts As we turn the page to a new year, the innovation evolution continues. ICBA is leaning into it, bringing its ThinkTECH Accelerator program and innovation efforts in-house to provide community bankers with targeted solutions. Digital transformation shows no signs of slowing down.

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Charles Potts: Challenging the status quo

Independent Banker

ICBA has preached the importance of innovation, not as a project or something to silo inside a department but as an inclusive cultural and philosophical endeavor that should be part of an organization’s DNA. As prudent lenders, community bankers make every effort to mitigate risk. By Charles Potts, ICBA. Pushing the envelope.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

It accelerated the customer move to digital and the employees’ move to some kind of work-at-home arrangement, at least in part. 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. Doug Larson.

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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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2020 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Bankers started the year with good business plans, strong balance sheets, and optimism. By providing unprecedented loan relief and loan counseling/assistance for millions of their customers impacted by the pandemic. Even George Bailey would have given you the thumbs up. ” – Hunter Thompson. Everything.

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CEO Roundtable: Ideas for a successful 2023

Independent Banker

Following some respite in 2022, community bankers are bracing for a tougher economic landscape ahead in 2023. Illustration by Jack Hudson. We recently spoke with community bank CEOs from across the country to gain insights on how they’re proactively positioning to manage risks and take advantage of growth opportunities in the coming year.

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Gonzo Notes from Money20/20

Gonzobanker

Money20/20 became quite the event in a very short time, with 10,000 – count ’em – attendees up from 2,300 only three years ago. Bankers had long suspected MCX’s plan was to bypass the Visa/MasterCard rails by processing transactions as ACH. The logistics. Would we all take that growth? Big stories/buzz. Apple Pay … not.