Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers

We have been waiting for several weeks to talk about this...but now we can. While we did have to cancel the graduate school this May, we're going to be launching a new program called "Crisis Leadership". In addition, Chris and I discuss the different things Barret has coming out in the next few months.

As we stated a few weeks ago, as news comes out we'll have Jim Reber with ICBA Securities on to give us his insight into the news and its impact on community banks. With PPP having been exhausted, a possible second round coming soon, interest rates/markets reacting the way they are...it's important for community banks to stay abreast of the situation.

At the risk of dissecting a new index and boring our audience, let's talk about the workforce today...what they're feeling and who's feeling what. It's important to consider if we are going to serve our customers as well as our employees.

Check out the report LinkedIn put out: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/workforce-confidence-index-introducing-biweekly-pulse-george-anders/?trackingId=

As many of our listeners know...PPP was not a smooth process for community banks despite what the news told us. Many of you worked tirelessly through the weekend and long into the night to help your customers during this time. Pres Kennedy, the former chairman of the ICBA, is one of the strongest proponents of community banks and expressed deep concerns about the implications of this botched rollout. But, like so many of you, he knows our strong our industry is and how well we serve our customers.

With things changing in the markets rapidly, we are going to bring on Jim Reber with ICBA Securities to update listeners with economic news...when economic news happens. As you know, Jim's done our quarterly Main Street Economic Update for awhile now...but we know that, these days, quarterly isn't timely enough for bankers.

Today, we discuss the unemployment numbers and some ideas on the brand new PPP and other business loan initiatives that went live today, April 3.

If you would like to talk to Jim more, please don't hesitate to contact me via email at [email protected]

We all know that one of the impacts we are going to face with this COVID-19 is the credit quality of our loans. Is it the most important thing facing our world today, clearly not. But it is coming...and it is something we need to have a game plan for as we continue on with 2020 and in to 2021.

We pick up where we left off yesterday with Jimmy and Joshua's conversation about the issues many community banks face with remote working. Now, more than ever, the ideas of contingency planning and technology is so important for us to grasp.

For more information, please check out https://sawyersjacobs.com/

We are facing a new paradigm right now in community banking. Many of our notions on remote working, security, and technology in general is being challenged. And there are no better friends of community banking in this area than Jimmy Sawyers and Joshua Jacobs.

For more information about Sawyers and Jacobs, check out their website: https://sawyersjacobs.com/

Thanks for coming back! If you haven't heard part 1 from yesterday's episode, take some time and listen to that as well. These are tough times for all of us...but there is still good in the world and you can do this!!

These are tough times for all of us in community banking. How do we handle the stresses we are currently facing? Whether we are working remotely or we are working in closed lobbies through drive-thru windows, the past few weeks have seen an enormous amount of changes and anxieties. Brad Federman spends two days with us talking about this very topic.