HeyJaredMain Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers
The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking is a non-profit independent school created by and governed by a Board of Regents, whose members are executives from banks and other firms involved with the financial services industry.The mission of the School is to provide an adult…
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Communiversity — What Pendleton Community Bank and WVU Tech Built (opens the original)
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The college in your market is probably one of the largest employers on your commercial list, and most community banks have no relationship with it. T. Ramon Stuart, president of WVU Tech, and Bill Loving at Pendleton Community Bank built one anyway, out of a lunch for three that came to about sixteen dollars. They call it Communiversity — the community is the university, the university is the community. Key Points Start with the payroll: 309 full-time employees at WVU Tech roughly 849 across a y
CRA Is Moving Again — What's Actually in the Proposal (opens the original)
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The FDIC and OCC have a CRA proposal out. The Federal Reserve hasn't signed on. Shaun Harms joins the show to separate what's in the text from what's circulating on LinkedIn. Harms is a principal and regional sector leader over the consulting practice at Forvis Mazars, concentrated in compliance and BSA. He's about 20 years out of the graduate school and now sits on the Barret banking faculty. He also runs the quarterly compliance roundtable. His read: this is a threshold rewrite, not a rebuild.
Sonata Bank: Culture, AI, Payments...and much more! (opens the original)
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I really like getting to tell the stories of interesting banks I find along the way. Sonata Bank is one of those banks that's just a cool story. The CEO, Wendell Bontrager, is an interesting guy and I really enjoyed our chat. I think you will to.
CommunityBankers.AI: New Conversations around Treasury Management and AI (opens the original)
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There's a lot of "meat and potatoes" on today's episode. A lot of points made and shifts in how to think. It's a lot for one episode if I'm being honest. But, that's ok. It's the start of a new way of thinking in my opinion. I hope you enjoy listening to Laura and Cory discussing their new initiative https://www.communitybankers.ai/ and their new perspectives on AI and treasury management. I hope it'll make you think new thoughts because it's been changing my opinion on quite a few things.
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