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This Month in Banking — 141 episodes

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Digital Dollars, Real Consequences

2

Your Cost of Funds Is What?!?!

3

Turning Customer Experience Into Strategy

4

Building a Unique Community Bank Through New Business Lines

5

Enterprise AI in Banking: From Experiment to Impact

6

Banking's Next Growth Move

7

When Fintech Meets Community Banking

8

TKG Joins The Pack - Wolf x TKG

9

Bank Strategy: Community Banks vs. National Banks

10

Bank M&A Today and Outlook for 2026

11

Improving Shareholder Liquidity in Community Banks

12

Scaling a Community Bank: Tech, Team, and Deposits

13

Shareholder Succession

14

Banking on Insight: Inflation, Risk & the Road Ahead

15

Bank Stocks & Beyond: Gerard Cassidy's Forecast

16

Navigating the AI Revolution: A Community Bank Perspective

17

Bank Transformation Unpacked: The Newtek Story Continues

18

Cannabis Banking in 2025

19

Crypto, Fintech, and other Non-Interest Income Drivers in 2025

20

Big Picture: The Future of Community Financial Institutions

21

Potential Changes in Bank Regulation under the Trump Administration

22

Stratum, New Technology That Will Revolutionize Banking!

23

Use Cases of Generative AI – What are the Risks?

24

Banking for Good - CFG Bank Supports Key Bridge Recovery

25

Banking on Change – The Leader's Guide to Achieving Exponential Growth in the Age of AI

26

Pig Butchering Scams – Help Protect Your Customers!

27

Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations

28

Banks Can Thrive or Die, What History Teaches Us

29

How Promoting Financial Literacy Can Help Financial Institutions Perform Better

30

Ingredients to a Successful Management Team

31

Reducing Expenses with Process Automation

32

Graduating from Data Analytics to Data Utilization

33

2024 Banking Industry Trends

34

Managing Through Change, Getting Stuff Done!

35

AI in Community Banking - Are YOU Ready?

36

Hot Topics in Accounting – What you need to know!

37

What is the "Secret Sauce" to Community Bank System, Inc.'s Long Term Success?

38

What should be in your deposit strategy?

39

What Does Brand Get You?

40

How to Acquire and Retain Small Business Relationships

41

Why Do Branches Fail at Sales?

42

Instant Payments are Here! What Are the Implications for Community Banks?

43

Banking Turmoil. What's Next?

44

Turnaround Success – U.S. Century Bank

45

How FinTech is Innovating Credit and Products for the Next Generation of Borrowers

46

What's on Jeff's Mind this Holiday Season?!

47

Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent

48

Navigating the Moat Your Core Processor Has Built Around Your Data

49

Banks are Responsible for Building Bankers!

50

Totem, the First Challenger Bank for Native Americans!

51

Wealth Management – Opportunities and Challenges in 2022

52

Regulatory and Legislative Hurdles in 2022 – What You Need to Know!

53

Bank of the Future? Newtek on Cusp of Bank Acquisition!

54

How Baseball Can Help Bankers Improve Performance

55

Benefits of Revenue Diversification in Banking

56

Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations

57

The Economy and Interest Rates – Where Are They Going?

58

Jeff Marsico – Up Close and Personal!

59

The Kafafian Group's 20th Anniversary!

60

COVID Ongoing Impact on Bank Branches

61

The Future of Fintech! Are You Ready?!

62

Data Cleansing & Data Governance: What the heck does that mean?

63

M&A From a Strategic Perspective

64

Top Post-Pandemic Issues Facing CFOs

65

Squared Away – How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders

66

Culture Building in a Telecommuting World and What's the New Normal for a Post-Coronavirus Workplace?

67

Top Banking Issues in 2021

68

Credit Risk and Post Pandemic Planning

69

Purpose Driven Banking - A Better Business Model?

70

Bob Kafafian's Year-End Message

71

Two High Performing Banks Merge in the Midst of COVID

72

Transitioning Away From LIBOR - Are You Ready?

73

How the Pandemic has Fundamentally Changed Community Banking

74

Online Account Opening – Bring on the Deposits!

75

Turn Non-Customer PPP Borrowers into YOUR Customers

76

How to Win Business From Big Banks With Sophisticated Lending

77

The Effects of Covid-19 on Bank Earnings, Credit Quality and Valuations

78

Covid and Bank Liquidity

79

Millennials – What Do They Want From Their Bank?

80

Private Equity Investing in Banking

81

Banking New Year's Resolutions - We Have Opinions

82

Bob Kafafian – Up Close and Personal!

83

Are Diversity Requirements Really Necessary?

84

Finxact Core System – It's Different!

85

Byline Bank Turned its Future from Bleak to Bright!

86

Cannabis Banking – Are You Ready?

87

Core Providers, Open Banking, APIs: What Should You Know?

88

Welcome Megan Rutledge!

89

Insights from Gerard Cassidy, RBC Capital Markets

90

Is Your Loan Portfolio Ready for the Next Recession?

91

Right-Sizing your Branch Network? How One Community Banker Made the Tough Decisions

92

Is Your Brand A Loser? What Does it Take to Rebrand?

93

What's On Your Mind?

94

BB&T and SunTrust – Why Merge?

95

What Makes a "Great" Community Bank Board?

96

Federal Government Shutdown: What are Banks Doing?

97

Ten Things Community Bankers Should Be Thankful For During This Holiday Season

98

Community Banks Serving Small Business Customers in the Credit Card Space—How ICBA Bancard and TCM Bank Are Here to Help

99

Agencies Propose New Leverage Ratio for Community Banks

100

Is it Time to Start a New Bank? De Novo Applications are Up!

101

FDIC to Revisit Brokered Deposit Rules

102

Cybersecurity in Banking - Hot Topics!

103

What's New (and Not!) in Stress Testing

104

How to Deliver Value to Your Constituencies

105

Cardless ATMs: No Card? No Problem!

106

The Future of Community Bank Mergers

107

Welcome to Matt Prosseda

108

Liquidity Crunch? The Federal Home Loan Bank System – Reality versus Myth

109

The Road to CECL

110

Successful Transformation! Machias Savings Bank!

111

Finally Some Regulatory Relief!

112

Community Bank Profitability

113

Balancing Digital and Physical Presence

114

Is Your Brand Dead?

115

Pricing Discipline in a Rising Rate Environment

116

Are Your Priorities in Sync with Your Peers?

117

Indirect Lending - Are you in or out? / Tax Reform and the Banking Industry

118

Crisis Management / Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders / Bitcoin Mania

119

Banking Is a Team Sport / Zelle / A Public Bank for New Jersey?

120

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, A Behind the Scenes Listen

121

Community Banking and Hurricane Relief / Equifax Breach / Community Banks That Break the Mold

122

Current Expected Credit Losses ("CECL") - A Conversation with FASB Board Member, R. Harold Schroeder

123

Holding Company or No Holding Company? / Investor Groups Buying Banks / Regulator Focus on Wholesale Funding

124

The FMS Forum 2017 / Big Data: Practical Uses for Financial Institutions / Using Profitability to Incentivize the Right Behavior

125

Banking with a Purpose / Why Are Bankers Tightening CRE Standards? / Top Risks for Banks in 2017

126

Regulators Deem Strategic Risk a Top Concern / Is Reputation Everything?

127

Succession Planning / Customers Bancorp Sells BankMobile Unit to Flagship Community Bank

128

Operation HOPE - John Hope Bryant / Regulatory Relief?

129

Blockchain 101 / New Pay Structure for Wells Fargo Branch Employees / Did Bank of America Underpay FDIC Premiums?

130

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

131

Effect of Trump Presidency on Banking Industry

132

Bigger Banks Gobble Up Deposits / Wells Fargo Update

133

Wells Fargo - Phony Accounts/FDIC Change in De Novo Policy

134

Team Lift-outs as an Alternative to M&A / Evaluating Strategic Alternatives as a Prelude to a Sale / Reactions to Shrinking Margins

135

Community Banks Feast on Subordinated Debt / ROBO-Advisor & Community Banks Form Alliance / Merger of Mutuals

136

BREXIT / CECL / Investing in Banks / Fintech / DFAST

137

Craft Beers of Banking/The Battle for Millenials/Small Banks Thrive/Higher CRE Capital Requirements

138

Women in Banking/Credibility of Living Wills/M&A as Succession Planning/Cultural Due Diligence

139

CRE Concentrations/Fintech Lending/Amazon Echo/Charter Application Withdrawn

140

Stock Market and M&A Activity - Gerard Cassidy/Bank Technology

141

Athletes in Banking/David Bowie/Banks in Insurance