A look at some of the insights and analysis coming up in the annual State of Commercial Banking webinar and report.

We start the year off by taking a look back at how the commercial pricing story unfolded over the course of 2021: where things started, what happened along the way, and where we stand now as we head into 2022.

A generation of commercial bankers is rapidly moving toward retirement. What steps does the industry need to make to lessen the impact of this impending talent crunch?

Discussing the recent BCG/Q2 partnership, as well as YieldBuilder - the product jointly developed by the two companies - and the impact it will have on the commercial banking industry.

We look at insights from the PrecisionLender database, as well as polls conducted with commercial bankers, to see what those findings tell us about Primacy - why it's so vital now, why it's so difficult for some banks to achieve, and the bottom-line impact of broadening relationships.

Spreadsheets have their uses, but they're often not capable of performing some of the tasks banks ask of them. In this episode we look at spreadsheet shortcomings and the ways they could be harming your bank.

PrecisionLender's founder Carl Ryden likes to say "Data that doesn't lead to action is just trivia." Banks are great at measuring all sorts of things, but which metrics are really helping them improve performance and which ones are just ... trivia?

Big-bank M&A deals are at their highest levels since the late 90's. In this episode we explore what factors are pushing more and more and regional banks to join forces.

How can your bank keep the competition from raiding your deals? And are the processes your bank puts in place to guard against bad deals actually doing more harm than good? We go back into the blog vault for this week's Purposeful Banker episode.

We revisit an oldie-but-goodie topic: Banks spend a lot of time and effort calculating the price for each commercial deal. But how much do they focus on whether their bankers actually "get" that price?