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This Month in Banking — 141 episodes
Digital Dollars, Real Consequences
Your Cost of Funds Is What?!?!
Turning Customer Experience Into Strategy
Building a Unique Community Bank Through New Business Lines
Enterprise AI in Banking: From Experiment to Impact
Banking's Next Growth Move
When Fintech Meets Community Banking
TKG Joins The Pack - Wolf x TKG
Bank Strategy: Community Banks vs. National Banks
Bank M&A Today and Outlook for 2026
Improving Shareholder Liquidity in Community Banks
Scaling a Community Bank: Tech, Team, and Deposits
Shareholder Succession
Banking on Insight: Inflation, Risk & the Road Ahead
Bank Stocks & Beyond: Gerard Cassidy's Forecast
Navigating the AI Revolution: A Community Bank Perspective
Bank Transformation Unpacked: The Newtek Story Continues
Cannabis Banking in 2025
Crypto, Fintech, and other Non-Interest Income Drivers in 2025
Big Picture: The Future of Community Financial Institutions
Potential Changes in Bank Regulation under the Trump Administration
Stratum, New Technology That Will Revolutionize Banking!
Use Cases of Generative AI – What are the Risks?
Banking for Good - CFG Bank Supports Key Bridge Recovery
Banking on Change – The Leader's Guide to Achieving Exponential Growth in the Age of AI
Pig Butchering Scams – Help Protect Your Customers!
Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations
Banks Can Thrive or Die, What History Teaches Us
How Promoting Financial Literacy Can Help Financial Institutions Perform Better
Ingredients to a Successful Management Team
Reducing Expenses with Process Automation
Graduating from Data Analytics to Data Utilization
2024 Banking Industry Trends
Managing Through Change, Getting Stuff Done!
AI in Community Banking - Are YOU Ready?
Hot Topics in Accounting – What you need to know!
What is the "Secret Sauce" to Community Bank System, Inc.'s Long Term Success?
What should be in your deposit strategy?
What Does Brand Get You?
How to Acquire and Retain Small Business Relationships
Why Do Branches Fail at Sales?
Instant Payments are Here! What Are the Implications for Community Banks?
Banking Turmoil. What's Next?
Turnaround Success – U.S. Century Bank
How FinTech is Innovating Credit and Products for the Next Generation of Borrowers
What's on Jeff's Mind this Holiday Season?!
Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent
Navigating the Moat Your Core Processor Has Built Around Your Data
Banks are Responsible for Building Bankers!
Totem, the First Challenger Bank for Native Americans!
Wealth Management – Opportunities and Challenges in 2022
Regulatory and Legislative Hurdles in 2022 – What You Need to Know!
Bank of the Future? Newtek on Cusp of Bank Acquisition!
How Baseball Can Help Bankers Improve Performance
Benefits of Revenue Diversification in Banking
Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations
The Economy and Interest Rates – Where Are They Going?
Jeff Marsico – Up Close and Personal!
The Kafafian Group's 20th Anniversary!
COVID Ongoing Impact on Bank Branches
The Future of Fintech! Are You Ready?!
Data Cleansing & Data Governance: What the heck does that mean?
M&A From a Strategic Perspective
Top Post-Pandemic Issues Facing CFOs
Squared Away – How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders
Culture Building in a Telecommuting World and What's the New Normal for a Post-Coronavirus Workplace?
Top Banking Issues in 2021
Credit Risk and Post Pandemic Planning
Purpose Driven Banking - A Better Business Model?
Bob Kafafian's Year-End Message
Two High Performing Banks Merge in the Midst of COVID
Transitioning Away From LIBOR - Are You Ready?
How the Pandemic has Fundamentally Changed Community Banking
Online Account Opening – Bring on the Deposits!
Turn Non-Customer PPP Borrowers into YOUR Customers
How to Win Business From Big Banks With Sophisticated Lending
The Effects of Covid-19 on Bank Earnings, Credit Quality and Valuations
Covid and Bank Liquidity
Millennials – What Do They Want From Their Bank?
Private Equity Investing in Banking
Banking New Year's Resolutions - We Have Opinions
Bob Kafafian – Up Close and Personal!
Are Diversity Requirements Really Necessary?
Finxact Core System – It's Different!
Byline Bank Turned its Future from Bleak to Bright!
Cannabis Banking – Are You Ready?
Core Providers, Open Banking, APIs: What Should You Know?
Welcome Megan Rutledge!
Insights from Gerard Cassidy, RBC Capital Markets
Is Your Loan Portfolio Ready for the Next Recession?
Right-Sizing your Branch Network? How One Community Banker Made the Tough Decisions
Is Your Brand A Loser? What Does it Take to Rebrand?
What's On Your Mind?
BB&T and SunTrust – Why Merge?
What Makes a "Great" Community Bank Board?
Federal Government Shutdown: What are Banks Doing?
Ten Things Community Bankers Should Be Thankful For During This Holiday Season
Community Banks Serving Small Business Customers in the Credit Card Space—How ICBA Bancard and TCM Bank Are Here to Help
Agencies Propose New Leverage Ratio for Community Banks
Is it Time to Start a New Bank? De Novo Applications are Up!
FDIC to Revisit Brokered Deposit Rules
Cybersecurity in Banking - Hot Topics!
What's New (and Not!) in Stress Testing
How to Deliver Value to Your Constituencies
Cardless ATMs: No Card? No Problem!
The Future of Community Bank Mergers
Welcome to Matt Prosseda
Liquidity Crunch? The Federal Home Loan Bank System – Reality versus Myth
The Road to CECL
Successful Transformation! Machias Savings Bank!
Finally Some Regulatory Relief!
Community Bank Profitability
Balancing Digital and Physical Presence
Is Your Brand Dead?
Pricing Discipline in a Rising Rate Environment
Are Your Priorities in Sync with Your Peers?
Indirect Lending - Are you in or out? / Tax Reform and the Banking Industry
Crisis Management / Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders / Bitcoin Mania
Banking Is a Team Sport / Zelle / A Public Bank for New Jersey?
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, A Behind the Scenes Listen
Community Banking and Hurricane Relief / Equifax Breach / Community Banks That Break the Mold
Current Expected Credit Losses ("CECL") - A Conversation with FASB Board Member, R. Harold Schroeder
Holding Company or No Holding Company? / Investor Groups Buying Banks / Regulator Focus on Wholesale Funding
The FMS Forum 2017 / Big Data: Practical Uses for Financial Institutions / Using Profitability to Incentivize the Right Behavior
Banking with a Purpose / Why Are Bankers Tightening CRE Standards? / Top Risks for Banks in 2017
Regulators Deem Strategic Risk a Top Concern / Is Reputation Everything?
Succession Planning / Customers Bancorp Sells BankMobile Unit to Flagship Community Bank
Operation HOPE - John Hope Bryant / Regulatory Relief?
Blockchain 101 / New Pay Structure for Wells Fargo Branch Employees / Did Bank of America Underpay FDIC Premiums?
Ingredients to Success from American Bankers' Community Banker of the Year / He's Ba-ack! - Vernon Hill / Bank Builds Proprietary Software Solution, Licenses it to Other Banks
Effect of Trump Presidency on Banking Industry
Bigger Banks Gobble Up Deposits / Wells Fargo Update
Wells Fargo - Phony Accounts/FDIC Change in De Novo Policy
Team Lift-outs as an Alternative to M&A / Evaluating Strategic Alternatives as a Prelude to a Sale / Reactions to Shrinking Margins
Community Banks Feast on Subordinated Debt / ROBO-Advisor & Community Banks Form Alliance / Merger of Mutuals
BREXIT / CECL / Investing in Banks / Fintech / DFAST
Craft Beers of Banking/The Battle for Millenials/Small Banks Thrive/Higher CRE Capital Requirements
Women in Banking/Credibility of Living Wills/M&A as Succession Planning/Cultural Due Diligence
CRE Concentrations/Fintech Lending/Amazon Echo/Charter Application Withdrawn
Stock Market and M&A Activity - Gerard Cassidy/Bank Technology
Athletes in Banking/David Bowie/Banks in Insurance