This Month in Banking

By The Kafafian Group, Inc.

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A monthly review of current and interesting events relating to US financial institutions, and the potential impact on their customers, employees, and future.

Episode Date
Building a Unique Community Bank Through New Business Lines
May 27, 2026
Enterprise AI in Banking: From Experiment to Impact
Apr 28, 2026
Banking's Next Growth Move
Mar 25, 2026
When Fintech Meets Community Banking
Feb 25, 2026
TKG Joins The Pack - Wolf x TKG
Jan 30, 2026
Bank Strategy: Community Banks vs. National Banks
Dec 30, 2025
Bank M&A Today and Outlook for 2026
Nov 25, 2025
Improving Shareholder Liquidity in Community Banks
Oct 28, 2025
Scaling a Community Bank: Tech, Team, and Deposits
Sep 23, 2025
Shareholder Succession
Aug 26, 2025
Banking on Insight: Inflation, Risk & the Road Ahead
Jul 29, 2025
Bank Stocks & Beyond: Gerard Cassidy's Forecast
Jun 24, 2025
Navigating the AI Revolution: A Community Bank Perspective
May 27, 2025
Bank Transformation Unpacked: The Newtek Story Continues
Apr 29, 2025
Cannabis Banking in 2025
Mar 25, 2025
Crypto, Fintech, and other Non-Interest Income Drivers in 2025
Feb 25, 2025
Big Picture: The Future of Community Financial Institutions
Jan 28, 2025
Potential Changes in Bank Regulation under the Trump Administration
Dec 29, 2024
Stratum, New Technology That Will Revolutionize Banking!
Nov 26, 2024
Use Cases of Generative AI – What are the Risks?
Oct 29, 2024
Banking for Good - CFG Bank Supports Key Bridge Recovery
Sep 24, 2024
Banking on Change – The Leader's Guide to Achieving Exponential Growth in the Age of AI
Aug 27, 2024
Pig Butchering Scams – Help Protect Your Customers!
Jul 30, 2024
Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations
Jun 25, 2024
Banks Can Thrive or Die, What History Teaches Us
May 28, 2024
How Promoting Financial Literacy Can Help Financial Institutions Perform Better
Apr 23, 2024
Ingredients to a Successful Management Team
Mar 26, 2024
Reducing Expenses with Process Automation
Feb 27, 2024
Graduating from Data Analytics to Data Utilization
Jan 30, 2024
2024 Banking Industry Trends
Dec 26, 2023
Managing Through Change, Getting Stuff Done!
Nov 28, 2023
AI in Community Banking - Are YOU Ready?
Oct 24, 2023
Hot Topics in Accounting – What you need to know!
Sep 26, 2023
What is the "Secret Sauce" to Community Bank System, Inc.'s Long Term Success?
Aug 29, 2023
What should be in your deposit strategy?
Jul 25, 2023
What Does Brand Get You?
Jun 27, 2023
How to Acquire and Retain Small Business Relationships
May 30, 2023
Why Do Branches Fail at Sales?
Apr 25, 2023
Instant Payments are Here! What Are the Implications for Community Banks?
Mar 28, 2023
Banking Turmoil. What's Next?
Mar 14, 2023
Turnaround Success – U.S. Century Bank
Feb 21, 2023
How FinTech is Innovating Credit and Products for the Next Generation of Borrowers
Jan 24, 2023
What's on Jeff's Mind this Holiday Season?!
Dec 27, 2022
Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent
Nov 29, 2022
Navigating the Moat Your Core Processor Has Built Around Your Data
Oct 25, 2022
Banks are Responsible for Building Bankers!
Sep 27, 2022
Totem, the First Challenger Bank for Native Americans!
Aug 30, 2022
Wealth Management – Opportunities and Challenges in 2022
Jul 26, 2022
Regulatory and Legislative Hurdles in 2022 – What You Need to Know!
Jun 28, 2022
Bank of the Future? Newtek on Cusp of Bank Acquisition!
May 24, 2022
How Baseball Can Help Bankers Improve Performance
Apr 26, 2022
Benefits of Revenue Diversification in Banking
Mar 29, 2022
Major Issues Impacting Bank Stocks and Valuations
Feb 22, 2022
The Economy and Interest Rates – Where Are They Going?
Jan 25, 2022
Jeff Marsico – Up Close and Personal!
Dec 28, 2021
The Kafafian Group's 20th Anniversary!
Nov 23, 2021
COVID Ongoing Impact on Bank Branches
Oct 26, 2021
The Future of Fintech! Are You Ready?!
Sep 28, 2021
Data Cleansing & Data Governance: What the heck does that mean?
Aug 24, 2021
M&A From a Strategic Perspective
Jul 27, 2021
Top Post-Pandemic Issues Facing CFOs
Jun 29, 2021
Squared Away – How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders
May 25, 2021
Culture Building in a Telecommuting World and What's the New Normal for a Post-Coronavirus Workplace?
Apr 27, 2021
Top Banking Issues in 2021
Mar 30, 2021
Credit Risk and Post Pandemic Planning
Feb 23, 2021
Purpose Driven Banking - A Better Business Model?
Jan 26, 2021
Bob Kafafian's Year-End Message
Dec 21, 2020
Two High Performing Banks Merge in the Midst of COVID
Nov 24, 2020
Transitioning Away From LIBOR - Are You Ready?
Oct 27, 2020
How the Pandemic has Fundamentally Changed Community Banking
Sep 29, 2020
Online Account Opening – Bring on the Deposits!
Aug 25, 2020
Turn Non-Customer PPP Borrowers into YOUR Customers
Jul 28, 2020
How to Win Business From Big Banks With Sophisticated Lending
Jun 23, 2020
The Effects of Covid-19 on Bank Earnings, Credit Quality and Valuations
May 26, 2020
Covid and Bank Liquidity
Apr 28, 2020
Millennials – What Do They Want From Their Bank?
Mar 24, 2020
Private Equity Investing in Banking
Feb 25, 2020
Banking New Year's Resolutions - We Have Opinions
Jan 28, 2020
Bob Kafafian – Up Close and Personal!
Dec 24, 2019
Are Diversity Requirements Really Necessary?
Nov 27, 2019
Finxact Core System – It's Different!
Oct 29, 2019
Byline Bank Turned its Future from Bleak to Bright!
Sep 24, 2019
Cannabis Banking – Are You Ready?
Aug 27, 2019
Welcome Megan Rutledge!
Jul 30, 2019
Core Providers, Open Banking, APIs: What Should You Know?
Jul 30, 2019
Insights from Gerard Cassidy, RBC Capital Markets
Jun 25, 2019
Is Your Loan Portfolio Ready for the Next Recession?
May 28, 2019
Right-Sizing your Branch Network? How One Community Banker Made the Tough Decisions
Apr 23, 2019
Is Your Brand A Loser? What Does it Take to Rebrand?
Mar 26, 2019
BB&T and SunTrust – Why Merge?
Feb 26, 2019
What's On Your Mind?
Feb 26, 2019
Federal Government Shutdown: What are Banks Doing?
Jan 29, 2019
What Makes a "Great" Community Bank Board?
Jan 29, 2019
Ten Things Community Bankers Should Be Thankful For During This Holiday Season
Dec 21, 2018
Agencies Propose New Leverage Ratio for Community Banks
Nov 27, 2018
Community Banks Serving Small Business Customers in the Credit Card Space—How ICBA Bancard and TCM Bank Are Here to Help
Nov 27, 2018
FDIC to Revisit Brokered Deposit Rules
Oct 30, 2018
Is it Time to Start a New Bank? De Novo Applications are Up!
Oct 30, 2018
What's New (and Not!) in Stress Testing
Sep 25, 2018
Cybersecurity in Banking - Hot Topics!
Sep 25, 2018
Cardless ATMs: No Card? No Problem!
Aug 28, 2018
How to Deliver Value to Your Constituencies
Aug 28, 2018
Welcome to Matt Prosseda
Jul 24, 2018
The Future of Community Bank Mergers
Jul 24, 2018
The Road to CECL
Jun 26, 2018
Liquidity Crunch? The Federal Home Loan Bank System – Reality versus Myth
Jun 26, 2018
Finally Some Regulatory Relief!
May 29, 2018
Successful Transformation! Machias Savings Bank!
May 29, 2018
Community Bank Profitability
May 02, 2018
Balancing Digital and Physical Presence
May 01, 2018
Is Your Brand Dead?
Apr 24, 2018
Pricing Discipline in a Rising Rate Environment
Mar 27, 2018
Are Your Priorities in Sync with Your Peers?
Feb 28, 2018
Indirect Lending - Are you in or out? / Tax Reform and the Banking Industry
Jan 30, 2018
Crisis Management / Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders / Bitcoin Mania
Dec 26, 2017
Banking Is a Team Sport / Zelle / A Public Bank for New Jersey?
Nov 28, 2017
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, A Behind the Scenes Listen
Oct 24, 2017
Community Banking and Hurricane Relief / Equifax Breach / Community Banks That Break the Mold
Sep 26, 2017
Current Expected Credit Losses ("CECL") - A Conversation with FASB Board Member, R. Harold Schroeder
Aug 29, 2017
Holding Company or No Holding Company? / Investor Groups Buying Banks / Regulator Focus on Wholesale Funding
Jul 26, 2017
The FMS Forum 2017 / Big Data: Practical Uses for Financial Institutions / Using Profitability to Incentivize the Right Behavior
Jun 28, 2017
Banking with a Purpose / Why Are Bankers Tightening CRE Standards? / Top Risks for Banks in 2017
May 30, 2017
Regulators Deem Strategic Risk a Top Concern / Is Reputation Everything?
Apr 25, 2017
Succession Planning / Customers Bancorp Sells BankMobile Unit to Flagship Community Bank
Mar 28, 2017
Operation HOPE - John Hope Bryant / Regulatory Relief?
Feb 21, 2017
Blockchain 101 / New Pay Structure for Wells Fargo Branch Employees / Did Bank of America Underpay FDIC Premiums?
Jan 24, 2017
Ingredients to Success from American Bankers' Community Banker of the Year / He's Ba-ack! - Vernon Hill / Bank Builds Proprietary Software Solution, Licenses it to Other Banks
Dec 27, 2016
Effect of Trump Presidency on Banking Industry
Nov 29, 2016
Bigger Banks Gobble Up Deposits / Wells Fargo Update
Oct 25, 2016
Wells Fargo - Phony Accounts/FDIC Change in De Novo Policy
Sep 28, 2016
Team Lift-outs as an Alternative to M&A / Evaluating Strategic Alternatives as a Prelude to a Sale / Reactions to Shrinking Margins
Aug 30, 2016
Community Banks Feast on Subordinated Debt / ROBO-Advisor & Community Banks Form Alliance / Merger of Mutuals
Jul 26, 2016
BREXIT / CECL / Investing in Banks / Fintech / DFAST
Jun 28, 2016
Craft Beers of Banking/The Battle for Millenials/Small Banks Thrive/Higher CRE Capital Requirements
May 24, 2016
Women in Banking/Credibility of Living Wills/M&A as Succession Planning/Cultural Due Diligence
Apr 26, 2016
CRE Concentrations/Fintech Lending/Amazon Echo/Charter Application Withdrawn
Mar 29, 2016
Stock Market and M&A Activity - Gerard Cassidy/Bank Technology
Feb 23, 2016
Athletes in Banking/David Bowie/Banks in Insurance
Jan 22, 2016