Drawing on conversations with executives running institutions with $2 billion in assets to over a trillion, and research in conjunction with Alkami Technologies, this episode reframes what resilience means in 2026 and what it requires of leadership.
Topics covered:

• Why this consolidation cycle is structurally different from the 1990s wave or the post-2008 wave

• Why digital maturity now predicts revenue performance more reliably than scale does

• What separates the institutions positioned to acquire from the ones positioned to be acquired

• Why the grace period banks used to have for technology adoption is gone

• The new definition of resilience that determines who survives this cycle

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