Banking with Interest

Barbara Rehm talks to Gene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency and now chairman and CEO of Promontory Financial Group, about what banks and the government should be doing to help the economy recover. "We have to act with boldness."

In an in-depth interview, entrepreneur and Shark Tank co-star Mark Cuban talks about what went wrong with the Payment Protection Program, how policymakers can fix it, and why big banks turned from hero to villain in this crisis. He also touches on possible presidential ambitions and his vision for the future of America.

Jill Castilla, the president and CEO of Citizens Bank of Edmond in Oklahoma, talks about her collaboration with Mark Cuban of Shark Tank, how the PPP program has worked for her institution and other ways she’s trying to help those affected by the spread of the coronavirus.

In the first episode of Banking With Interest, a new financial services podcast by Promontory Interfinancial Network, host Rob Blackwell talks to former ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine about the challenges facing banks during the current COVID-19 crisis. What should community banks and other financial institutions be doing at a time like this? What kinds of banks are going to be hit hardest? Will there be bank failures? Cam offers frank talk during troubled times.