South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It allows employees to not worry about interest rates by eliminating the risk and complexity of trying to manage a balance sheet. Creating and executing on a strategy that is “simple,” tends to be difficult. To be clear, complexity isn’t bad, it just has more risk and is harder to manage. We need one good one.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

Despite that increase in profitability, banks need to be mindful of how they manage their branch and customer base to increase profitability further. The operative question is: given online and mobile banking, what is the new role of the branch? Our point here is branching isn’t a passive activity.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Is WiFi necessary in the branches? Is employee Internet usage managed? Ethernet offers greater change management flexibility, additional stability and a desirable cost structure at higher bandwidths. Smaller regional niche networks. Today it is Ethernet. We see innovation and new services first from these vendors.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Before 2022, says Thomas Grottke, managing director at Crowe LLP, “a lot of factors were going right. I counsel my community banks to be careful about extreme growth in rising rate environments,” says Jim Adkins, managing partner at Artisan Advisors in Barrington, Ill. Consider your branch strategy. Connors, Jr.,

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Another day, another convoluted organizational structure that includes “small business bankers” that are dispersed into the branch network to shore up branch capabilities. If not small business bankers, it’s “cash management officers”, or “business development officers”.

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American Banker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Is your bank effectively mitigating the risk of 'managing to metrics'? The phony-account scandal at Wells Fargo illustrates how sales quotas can incent bad behavior. Or could it be in danger of becoming a 'cargo cult'?

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The scorcher at Wells is giving some community bankers an opening to differentiate themselves from larger institutions that seem fee-dependent or "too big to manage.".

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