The Bank Account

Hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler are joined for today's episode by Kevin Strachan, an attorney in Bryan Cave's Financial Services Corporate and Regulatory practice, to discuss proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis as well as corporate governance issues generally.

Jim McAlpin joins host Jonathan Hightower to discuss the steps that banks should take to ensure effective strategic planning sessions, along with common mistakes that banks make in approaching the planning process.

Ken Achenbach and Sean Christy, attorneys in Bryan Cave's Atlanta office, discuss how regulatory supervision of third party service providers will impact banks on today's episode.

Bryan Cave’s Ken Achenbach joins hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler to discuss the data-driven marketing of credit products by financial services companies.

Hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler discuss recent capital raises and techniques used to preserve deferred tax assets.

On today's episode hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler discuss Jonathan's visit to Washington, D.C. with a delegation of bankers earlier this week. They also take a close look at the CFPB's small business lending initiative and the related RFI that was issued last week.

Click on the link below to access the RFI. Jonathan and Rob encourage all bankers to respond.

Request for Information Regarding the Small Business Lending Market: https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201705_cfpb_RFI_Small-Business-Lending-Market.pdf

Hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler are joined on today's episode by Bryan Cave partner Steve Schaffer to discuss the advantages to banks considering implementing an ESOP. Steve describes how ESOPs can not only be used to provide an employee benefit, but also to allow for smooth transitions of ownership for independent banks.

Being in the season for shareholder meetings, hosts Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler take the opportunity to discuss tips for how to approach challenging shareholders or circumstances at your annual meetings.

Today's episode takes a look at the recently-announced move by Bank of the Ozarks to dissolve their bank holding company. Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler delve into the pros and cons for other banks considering a similar course of action.

Jonathan Hightower and Rob Klingler are joined by Stan Koppel, an attorney from Bryan Cave's San Francisco office, to discuss payments systems employed by banks around the country. Stan shares his background and touches on what's working now and what's ahead in the payments world for financial institutions.