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The Purposeful Banker — 362 episodes

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1

More Than Another AI Conversation

2

Why Discipline, Not Momentum, Drives Better Bank Performance

3

Bank M&A Beyond the Balance Sheet

4

What Bank Leaders Need to Know About Stablecoins

5

The Math That Breaks Bank Silos

6

What Digital Dollars Mean for Treasury and Payments

7

Will 2026 Be the Year of Intention? 2026 State of Commercial Banking Preview

8

Showcasing Liquidity's Role: 2026 State of Commercial Banking Preview

9

Can You Fight Fraud and Improve Customer Experience at the Same Time?

10

What High-Performing Banks Dare to Do Differently

11

Art, Algorithms, and the Future of AI in Banking

12

Inside Gen Z: A Fintech Playbook That Works

13

What Is Fraud Intelligence?

14

Inside Gen Z: The Story Behind the Numbers

15

Inside Gen Z: Lessons in Loyalty

16

Take the Emotion Out of Relationship Management

17

Unclogging the Bottleneck of Treasury Onboarding

18

Insights From SMBs on the Digital Experience They Need

19

How AI Beat the Bad Guys

20

From Pain to Profit: Fixing Treasury Repricing at the Source

21

Give Small Businesses the Reasons to Choose You

22

Secrets to Keeping Corporate Clients Happy

23

Are You Leaving FX Money on the Table?

24

Fighting Account Takeover and Email Compromise in Business Banking

25

Four Steps for Small Business Success, Part 2

26

Writing the Recipe for Instant Payments

27

Tech, Touch, and Trust in Commercial Banking

28

Four Steps for Small Business Success: Part 1

29

The State of Fraud in Banking

30

Webinar Sneak Peek: Fraud Orchestration With Datos Insights

31

Business Banking Is Relationship Gold for Credit Unions

32

Making the Case for Positive Pay

33

2025 State of Commercial Banking Preview

34

Creativity Is Your North Star

35

From Submarines to Banking: Navigating Technological Paradigm Shifts

36

Small Business: Fragmentation, Segmentation, and Beyond Business

37

One Credit Union's Contrarian Approach to Commercial Banking

38

The Business Time Machine

39

So Let's Talk About Fraud

40

Battling Business Nihilism

41

Win Where You Want to Win With SMBs

42

It Started With a Dream

43

ERP Integration: A Complicated Necessity

44

Balancing AI With Security and Compliance

45

Beyond the Hype: The Real Implications of GenAI on Banking

46

Marketing Magic and the New Meaning of Engagement

47

View From the C Suite: Perspectives on Deposit Growth, Fraud, and Talent Management

48

At the Intersection of Treasury and Technology

49

Welcome Back, Dallas Wells

50

Instant Payments Are Here: Now What?

51

The Banking Industry From a Reporter's View

52

The Quest for Deposits: What's Working Now and What Will Work Eventually

53

Constant Leadership for Changing Times

54

An Industry in Transition: Chatting with Leda Glyptis

55

In the Headlines: Earnings, AI, and Basel

56

2024 State of Commercial Banking Preview

57

Regulatory Ripples: Basel III in 2024

58

Digital Designed for Growth

59

How Can AI Deliver Real Value for Banking?

60

Fall Market Check-In

61

The Beauty You Don't Get From Beast Mode

62

The Case for Adaptability in Banking

63

A Unique (Deposit) Refinance Opportunity

64

SMB: This Time, It's Personal

65

How to Be a Tech Budget Champion

66

Making Difficult Choices During Budget Season

67

State of Commercial Banking Mid-Year Update

68

The Meteoric Rise of ChatGPT and the Future of AI

69

AI: Everything Everywhere All at Once

70

A Chat With Neil Stanley About Deposits

71

Sleepy Money No More

72

The Skinny on the New Instant Payments Rails

73

Breaking Barriers in Banking

74

Market Update Amid the New Banking Crisis

75

Bank Stress and Uncertainty in the Digital Age

76

A Discussion That Was Ahead of Its Time

77

Guarding and Growing Deposits

78

A Message That Was Ahead of Its Time

79

2023 State of Commercial Banking Preview

80

Building a Strong Team for the Future

81

Doing Digital: A Modern Bank's Guide to Thrive

82

The Age of Volatility

83

Preparing Today to Brace for Tomorrow

84

Catching Up With Dallas Wells

85

Striking a Balance Between Hurry Up and Wait

86

Good News, Bad News: Protecting Your Bank Against Bad Actors

87

Spotlight: How Texas Security Bank Uses Purpose to Take On Goliath

88

Why It's Time to Double Down on Relationship Banking

89

Finally! Interest Rate Effects Start to Take Shape

90

Episode Rewind: Bank Strategies for the Next Recession

91

BankOnPurpose: Looking Back and Moving Forward

92

RM Tips: Structuring Deals in a Down Economy

93

Bear Market Breakdown

94

What Are SMBs Saying About Their FIs?

95

Rate Hikes Are Here - What's Next?

96

Part Two: Winning With SMBs Is About More Than Just Technology

97

Winning With SMBs Is About More Than Just Technology

98

What a Long Strange Trip ...

99

Time to Talk Interest Rates

100

SMB Lending: What The Economist's Survey Says

101

State of Commercial Banking 2022: Sneak Preview

102

A Look Back at Commercial Pricing in 2021

103

A Commercial Banking Retirement Wave ... or Tsunami?

104

Introducing YieldBuilder and the BCG/Q2 Partnership

105

What Does the Data Tell Us About Primacy?

106

Spreadsheet Shortcoming at Your Bank

107

When Metrics Go Awry in Commercial Banking

108

What's Driving the Recent Flurry of Regional Bank M&A?

109

Why Pirates and Dull Knives Matter in Commercial Banking

110

Can Your Commercial Bank "Get" the Price It "Sets"?

111

Anxieties and Opportunities in Commercial Banking

112

Commercial Deal Collaboration: The Treasury Perspective

113

Is True Commercial Deal Collaboration Possible?

114

Connecting the Commercial Banking Tech Stack

115

What Does "Primacy" Mean for Commercial Banks?

116

The Case for Booking Low-Margin Loans

117

The Crucial Final Cross-Sell Step

118

Merger Concerns and Loosening Credit Standards

119

What Does "Relationship Banking" Really Mean?

120

How the Commercial Loan Market Fared in Q1

121

Yep, It's Time to Talk About LIBOR ... Again

122

Does Anyone Want Deposits Anymore?

123

2021 Commercial Market Survey: What Do Bankers REALLY Think?

124

Is Commercial Loan Growth in 2021?

125

Introducing the PrecisionLender Insights Suite!

126

The Return of PPP (And What That Means for Banks)

127

Previewing the State of Commercial Banking Webinar

128

Commercial Banking Revenue Tips for 2021

129

The Push to Be the Primary Bank

130

How Are Commercial Banks Faring in the Pandemic?

131

Greenwich Associates' Chris McDonnell on Commercial Customer Loyalty in 2020

132

Talking Cash Management Tech & Cross-Selling With Aite Group's Christine Barry

133

Key Takeaways from Bank Director's 2020 Tech Survey

134

Demand-Side Commercial Banking Sales, with Bob Moesta

135

Why Doesn't Wall Street Believe in Banks?

136

Banking Budget Challenges During COVID

137

Commercial Banking's Looming LIBOR Problem

138

How Banks Are Tackling Hotel Industry Risk

139

Is CECL Really "A Joke"?

140

What Our Risk Research Shows

141

Do Your Bank's Risk Ratings Help or Hinder?

142

Have Commercial Banks Reached a Digital Tipping Points?

143

What's Next for Commercial Bankers?

144

Rogue RMs: Straw Men or Legitimate Concern?

145

Financial Crisis First-Timers & Tough Workout Conversations

146

Are Banks Taking a High-Risk Approach to Risk Mitigation?

147

How the COVID Crisis Is Impacting Banking M&A

148

Main Street Lending Is Starting! ... Now What?

149

Questions Banks Still Need to Consider During COVID-19

150

Sobering Data and the Importance of Main Street Lending

151

Main Street Lending: What Your Bank Needs to Know

152

Introducing the PrecisionLender CARES Edition

153

Commercial Line of Credit Usage: What the Data Says So Far

154

Recent Trends With Commercial Deposits, April 6

155

What We're Seeing In The Commercial Lending Market, 3/26

156

Friendly Advice for Bankers Facing an Uncertain Market

157

Jim Stengel Talks Purpose & Performance at Banks

158

Diving Deeper on Accenture's Commercial Banking Trends

159

Time to Truly Do Digital: Interview w/ Sam Maule of 11:FS

160

Introducing: Market Insights

161

A Sneak Peek At the State of Commercial Banking Webinar

162

Recession Prep Survey - What Commercial Bankers REALLY Think

163

Finding the Bank's Purpose: Atlantic Capital Bank

164

Hot Topics at Small Biz: Banking 2019

165

Commercial Banking's Revenue Problem

166

What Banks Are Saying About Tech Spending

167

The Regional Bank Goldilocks Challenge

168

What's In a (Bank) Name?

169

The Yield Curve Conundrum

170

The Story of Beal Bank: Why It Still Resonates

171

Bank Strategies for the Next Recession

172

What's Happening With Commercial Deposits

173

Key Results from Our Commercial Pricing Market Survey

174

What You Need to Know About Libor and SOFR

175

What Poker Pro Annie Duke Can Teach Bankers

176

Winning Tactics of Top RMs: Scaling Best Behaviors

177

Riches in the Niches: The Case for Commercial RM Specialization

178

Interview with 11:FS Bank Innovator Leda Glyptis

179

Rethinking How to Price Commercial Renewals

180

What Bankers Should Do When Clients Test Them On Price

181

The Fierce Battle for Deposits - Who's Winning and Why

182

Lessons from a Cautionary Small Bank Tale

183

Onboarding Tales: Lessons for Banks Bringing on New Customers

184

Winning Tactics of Top RMs: Performance-Based Pricing

185

The Pain of Selling New Bank Products

186

Why Your Bank's CRM Project Is Failing

187

How Does Your Commercial Bank Coach?

188

2018's Top Episode: Winning Tactics of the Best RMs

189

Hot Topics from Small Biz: Banking Conference

190

Hot Topics from Small Biz: Banking Conference

191

6 Lessons Banks Can Learn From NBKC

192

Uberizing Deposit Pricing

193

What's Driving Value at Banks?

194

Lasting Impressions From the BankAI Conference

195

Critical Conversations Bank Boards Are Having

196

What a 1968 Computer Demo Can Teach Bankers

197

Why Is Your Bank Innovating?

198

Rethinking What Commercial Banks Measure

199

Will a Bank's AI Produce an ROI? 6 Questions to Ask

200

Winning Tactics of the Top Commercial RMs, Part 2

201

Talent Challenges in Commercial Banking

202

The Tech Spending Gap in Commercial Banking

203

The Winning Tactics of Top Commercial RMs, Part 1

204

Aligning Your Bankers' Self-Interests

205

3 Traits of Innovative Commercial Banks

206

Is Your Commercial Bank Too Satisfied for Digital Transformation?

207

Talking Swaps Stats With Chatham Financial

208

The Default Settings That Can Help Your Commercial Bank

209

Is Your Bank Ready For CECL?

210

Rates are Rising! So What Should Your Commercial Bank Do?

211

Improving Pull-Through Rates With Better Tactics and Better Tech

212

What's Your Reason for Sticking With Old Banking Technology?

213

For Commercial Banks, Complacency Is Not An Option

214

Lessons Learned From Innovation Projects Gone Awry

215

Why Don't Customers Trust Their Banks?

216

Is Your Bank on a CRE Treadmill?

217

Pricing with Prime vs. Pricing with LIBOR

218

Commercial Banks: Set Your Strategy, Target Your Customers, Then Execute

219

Repricing and Refinancing a Lucrative Deal

220

Laggards Lose in Today's Banking Landscape

221

Using Service Design to Wow and Win Customers

222

How Will The Tax Cuts Affect Your Bank?

223

Is A Performance Plan In Your Future? (REBROADCAST)

224

How To Avoid Originating A Bad Loan (REBROADCAST)

225

Attracting and Building A Rock-Solid Team

226

Group Brainstorms At Your Bank? Bad Idea.

227

Banking Needs Personalization at Scale

228

Current Pricing Struggles For Banks

229

Becoming an Accountable Leader

230

Banks at the Purpose Crossroads

231

Training vs. Coaching Your Relationship Managers

232

Simple Can Still Be Powerful

233

Focus on Customers, Not Competition

234

Get Great RMs, Keep Great RMs

235

Lessons Learned From Over 50 Mergers and Acquisitions

236

What Does Automation Mean For Banking Jobs?

237

Let's Get Back to Cross-Selling!

238

Let's Talk Time to Close

239

What's an Ecosystem and Why's Everyone Talking About It?

240

Artificial Intelligence - The New Digital Divide (Part I) [REBROADCAST]

241

When Bain Talks Pricing, People Listen

242

Stop Pricing With a Tourniquet

243

We Need API's!... Um, What's an API?

244

Get Busy Buyin' or Get Busy Dyin'

245

Is A Performance Plan in Your Future?

246

The Kind of AI That Actually Matters At Your Bank

247

Before You Buy, What's Your Value Prop?

248

Designing for Humans, Not Averages (REBROADCAST)

249

Your Search For A Book on Commercial Banking Is Over

250

Becoming A Leader In The Workplace

251

How to Avoid Originating a Bad Loan

252

Common Misconceptions About the Cloud

253

UX Is Not My Job

254

The Purposeful Banker Awards - Up & Comer Award

255

The Purposeful Banker Awards - Trophy Deal of the Year

256

Buying Bank Tech - Why FOMO Is Real

257

3 Customer Support Trends of 2017

258

The Power of Positive Peer Pressure in Banking

259

Banks Should Partner with Tech, Not Just Fintech

260

5 Misconceptions About AI in Commercial Banks

261

The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It

262

7 Deadly Sins of Pricing

263

How to Attract the Best Talent to Your Bank

264

Building a Successful Sales Process

265

How to Leverage Data at Your Bank

266

What's Your Bank's Backup Plan?

267

Trust-Based Selling: Becoming a Resource Manager

268

How Should Banks Handle a Vendor Risk Assessment?

269

Love Your Data

270

Meet Andi

271

Designing for Humans, Not Averages

272

Earn It - Chapter 12

273

Introducing The Purposeful Banker Awards

274

Buying vs. Building Technology

275

Artificial Intelligence: The New Digital Divide - Part 2

276

Artificial Intelligence: The New Digital Divide - Part 1

277

How to Measure Lender Performance

278

Earn It - Chapter 11

279

How Would Disney Run a Bank?

280

Earn It - Chapter 10

281

Trust & Transparency

282

No One Wants a Loan

283

Sing It, Aretha!

284

The Dos and Don'ts of Implemention

285

Earn It - Chapter 9

286

Aligning Purpose with Strategy in Banking

287

Machine Learning in Banking

288

The Other Side of Efficiency

289

Earn It - Chapter 8

290

The Psychology of Pricing

291

Your Bank Needs a Minimum Viable Process

292

The Goldilocks Approach to Buying Bank Technology

293

The Deals You Don't Do

294

Earn It: Chapter 7

295

Haggling Over Deal Terms

296

Are You the Bank of Last Resort?

297

Preparing for M&A

298

Earn It: Chapter 6

299

Asking Better Questions

300

Investing in Innovation

301

Building Customer Loyalty

302

Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule

303

The Earn It Podcast: Chapter 5

304

Book Review: The Challenger Sale

305

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

306

APIs Come to Banking

307

The Earn It Podcast - Chapter 4

308

Bank Acquisitions: What Would Warren Buffet Do?

309

BankOnPurpose Recap

310

A to Zipf

311

You Can't Drive Forward by Looking in the Rear View Mirror

312

The Earn It Book - Chapters 2 & 3

313

Customer Success for Bankers

314

Enterprise Risk Management for Banks

315

What does the $10 billion asset barrier mean for banks?

316

Introducing The Purposeful Banker

317

How to find and keep star employees

318

Navigating Internal Politics at Your Bank

319

The 4 Secrets of More Successful Lender-Borrower Conversations

320

Things I Wish I Knew My First Year of Commercial Banking

321

Turning Feedback Into Features

322

Aligning ALCO with Loan Pricing

323

The Operational Side of Lending

324

In Commercial Bank Lending, Hope is Not a Strategy

325

Why You Need To Put The Big Rocks in First

326

Price Setting vs Price Getting

327

How To Make Lenders Happy

328

Seven Steps to Strengthen Your Vendor Management Process

329

Your IT department will love you if...

330

The Scientific Method for Banks

331

What Bankers Can Learn From Non-Banks

332

Bank on Purpose conference

333

Getting Comfortable with Salesforce and Data Clouds

334

Social Listening for Bankers - Your Brand is Not Your Own Anymore

335

Managing a Lending Team

336

How to maximize your day: Efficiency tips

337

How to Make the Most of Conferences

338

Implementing Salesforce in a Bank: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 1)

339

Elevating Your Customers, Elevates Your Business

340

Pricing is a game of inches

341

3 Roadblocks to Better Pricing

342

The Mad Men of Banking

343

What is SaaS and why should banks care?

344

Aligning Pricing Tactics with Your Bank's Overall Strategy

345

Managing a Pipeline

346

Building Stronger Relationships

347

Integrating Pricing with Your CRM System

348

What $11 Billion/Month Tells Us

349

Interest Rate Swaps

350

Where do you fit in?

351

Relationship Pricing Best Practices

352

Your Lenders Are Your Quarterbacks

353

SBA Loans - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

354

Is this the start of rising interest rates?

355

Growing Loans in a Small Market

356

The Case for a Chief Pricing Officer at Your Bank

357

The Difference Between Thoroughbreds and Donkeys

358

Is Social Media Worth the Effort?

359

You Should Be Using Your Existing Banking Data to Get Better Results

360

Fighter Pilots, Used Car Salesmen, Empathy and Asking Why

361

Being a Young Commercial Lender in a Leadership Position and Getting Others to Follow

362

What's Going to Change on Monday Morning?