Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers

One of the most important (and yet least discussed) relationships in the bank is the CEO/CFO relationship. When it works...it REALLY works but when it doesn't....it REALLY doesn't. It represents banking, in so many ways, in that these two positions have vastly different perspectives yet must work together. However, I think you'll find in this episode (and next week's Part 2) that there are more similarities than you may have realized.

Many thanks to Eric Alexander and Brett McDowell (CEO of Victory Bank in TX) for taking the time to sit down and chat.

Also, thanks to our sponsor, ICBA Securities for their continued support.

With all the news and shake-ups we've seen over the last few days...I wanted to bring on Jim Reber to help banks understand what's going on.

Growing as a leader in a bank can be hard. Where do you even start? What does that even look like in practical terms?

Eric Alexander with Six Arrows Consulting is a frequent guest of the show because these are questions we like to discuss!

Be sure to check him out at https://sixarrowsconsulting.com/ as well as on LinkedIn

And many thanks to ICBA Securities for their sponsorship. Check them out at https://www.icba.org/icba-securities

Many thanks to Jim Reber, CEO of ICBA Securities, for continuing to sponsor the show as well as come on each quarter to shed light on economic news. I know it's a big help to all of us here and to many of you as well.

Be sure to register for the webinar he mentions at the end on Enterprise Risk Management. Jeff Rigsby is a great speaker and it'll be worth your time. You can register at https://stifel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rg2hVHJHTWexHS8Jri1wTA#/registration

I was glad to bring back Tim Dively to discuss data and AI. Tim does a great job of cutting through buzzwords and help banks understand these very weighty topics. In this episode, we discussed more organizational change management than you'd expect on an AI podcast episode but I think you'll see the importance of understanding where to start with AI but also how to implement the change. Great conversation!

The CRA has always been of interest to me. There's a lot of good that's come from it but recent changes have made the implementation of the law rather murky. Today, we sat down with David Lenoir, Pres/CEO of ICBA CRA Solutions and Steffani Jenkins, CRA Liaison, to discuss the foreseeable future of the law and also how important the law is to community banking in general.

To learn more about them, check out: https://www.icba.org/cra

Also thank you to ICBA Securities for their ongoing support! https://www.icba.org/icba-securities

We've done quite a bit of content over the last few years about ideas to use the space we have in out banks. I think it's a fascinating discussion because the ideas are wide ranging and have a HUGE amount of opportunity.

I met Alaa and got to know Maptician's work and I like the way he approaches this topic...managing leases. I thought it spoke to bankers and the way he frames the discussion around flex time/hybrid/wfh is interesting.

Be sure to check Maptician at https://www.maptician.com/ or email alaa at [email protected]

And as always, many thanks to ICBA Securities for their continued sponsorship.

It's been a long week this week with a ton of economic news....and you know us, when there's a news cycle like this, we bring on Jim Reber from ICBA Securities to give us a good comprehensive overview of what's going on.

In the episode, he mentioned the webinar next week on Bank Strategy from Stifel. Register for that at https://stifel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AxI4Bj-BRR62NjbUfxrneQ#/registration

And to learn more about ICBA Securities, check them out at https://www.icba.org/icba-securities

There's an age-old question in bank management that I've heard all the nearly 25 years I've been in the business. How do we get more business referrals from our employees? And the next question is going to be something like..."why didn't this incentive plan work?!"

If that situation sounds familiar (and I'm betting it does because, ya know...it's banking) then you might want to check out the episode today because a possible solution is amazingly simple.

Be sure to check out BankerBounty at https://www.bankerbounty.com/

And many thanks to ICBA Securities for their continued sponsorship! https://www.icba.org/icba-securities

December 18, 2024 the Fed made an announcement that many people did not see coming. So, whenever the Fed does something, we bring on Jim Reber to digest it for us and explain it to the community banking industry.

Be sure to check out ICBA Securities at www.icba.org/icba-securities