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John Asbury did not need a new job. He was about a year into a role as president and CEO of First National Bank of Santa Fe, a community bank [...]

In 2019, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch called 'Cheques,' a mock bank commercial that plays up the scandalous drama of check-writing--'because there's nothing like furiously scribbling on a piece [...]

Julieann Thurlow, ABA's 2023-24 chair, unites financial inclusion and financial innovation. It's a sunny summer day in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and we're getting ready for a party. Reading Cooperative Bank is [...]

Middle market businesses don't get all the love or the press, but they are critically important nonetheless. Here's the outlook for this sector going into 2024. The middle market doesn't [...]

In 2017, Alaina Veliz was a rising high school senior in Miami-Dade County, Florida. As a student in the business program, she had an opportunity to graduate with a NAF [...]

Inside one community bank's cybersecurity nightmare scenario. It was dawn on a cloudy, mild Saturday in fall, and John Smith* was about ready to go to bed. As the head [...]

As the end of 2025 looms, approximately 33 million businesses are facing a new and unfamiliar deadline: filing their beneficial ownership information, or BOI, with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. [...]

Building Oil a longstanding program that--in partnership with state bankers associations--develops programs to cultivate rising banking talent, ABA honored its firstever class of Emerging Leaders at the ABA Annual Convention [...]

Gary Shook has always been a bit of a political animal. 'I've always had an interest in the political side going back to my UVA days,' referring to the University [...]

Jodi Deuser was an accountant, but her dream was to own a restaurant. So the first person she went to see was a banker. The restaurant was Frumpy Joe's, a [...]

March Madness is upon us--and not just in college basketball. The 2023 landscape for bank policy issues resembles nothing so much as a fast-paced basketball game, with constant turnovers in [...]

For Devon Bank, a journey to donor-advised funds began in a seemingly small way: with a charitable change roundup product. The Chicago-based lender--which has won an ABA Foundation Community Commitment [...]

PHOTOS BY KEVIN BRUSIE AND DOUGLAS BARNES What drove Utah's population to grow faster than any other state in the past decade, with the nation's most diverse economy, leading it [...]

The Bank On movement for financial inclusion continues to accelerate. In July, the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund--which developed the Bank On standards and which certifies deposit accounts that meet [...]

The post-COVID economy is snapping back in a big way. According to the June 2021 consensus forecast of ABA's Economic Advisory Committee, the U.S. economy will grow at an inflation-adjusted [...]

The Rocky Mountains reach their southern crest at the cliffs of El Capitan in Texas. The stunning, sheer walls of the Guadalupe Mountains were once the edges of an ocean [...]

Jim Edwards' first car wasn't an American teenager's usual first car. As his longtime friend Scott Blackstock recalls, when Edwards turned 16, his first car was a very old--and very [...]

On March 25, 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating nationwide and stalking Washington. D.C., U.S.senators unanimously passed a $2 trillion corona-virus relief bill. Two days later, the House passed the [...]

One of the most controversial buildings in American history sits on Third Street in Philadelphia, between Walnut and Chestnut. Amid the august architectural company of Carpenters' Hall, Independence Hall and [...]

Casey Christopher is a 'CEO,' but not the one you're familiar with. As 'chief empowerment officer' at Manhattan-based Quontic Bank, she has a unique role in catalyzing innovation from the [...]

On Saturday, April 4, 2020, Jim Rieniets stands in a conference room at Nashville-based Insbank and looks at a video camera. 'Members of our team are working diligently to access [...]

If you look closely at the chilly, choppy waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, you might catch a glimpse of sleek black fins--the telltale sign of J pod, [...]

Imagine a consultant based in Puerto Rieo. She deposits mostly checks from her different clients, and she wants to open an account at a Great Lakes area bank. Would the [...]

Here we are, three adults, sitting in toddler-sized chairs in a former church basement. High-pitched laughter and kid chatter wafts in from the next room, where snacks are about to [...]

Voice in banking isn't exactly a new concept. After all, we've engaged with bankers using our voices since the first borrowers approached Renaissance Italy's 15th-century 'mounts of piety' to ask [...]

A casual Observer might be forgiven for thinking that when Congress passed--and President Trump signed--the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, or S. 2155, in 2018, that financial [...]

Here's a financial trivia question: What does Tupelo, Miss., have that some of America's largest metro areas, including Atlanta, Phoenix and San Diego, don't? The answer: at least two midsize [...]

When Jelena Obrenic landed in Stockton, Calif., in July of 1991, her world was turning upside down. A month before, Slovenia and Croatia had declared independence from her home country, [...]

For many Americans, 2020 has been a series of body blows--a pandemic that has claimed more than 187,000 lives at press time, the crippling economic fallout of the pandemic and [...]

After chugging along for 129 months, the longest U.S. economic expansion on record came to an end this spring with the coronavirus shutdown. The sharp contraction due to the pandemic [...]

What if you gave a party and nobody came? Or to put a finer point on it, what if one of your bank's biggest selling points--often one that's right there [...]

As the U.S. economic expansion stretched into new records, banks of all sizes continue to feel the pressure of growth. Persistently low interest rates--now falling once again--compress net interest margin, [...]

Several years ago, as part of a bid to stay ahead of the competitive curve in talent, Zions Bank set out to reinvent a robust but fairly traditional bank employment [...]

In the mid-1990s, historical preservationist Dana Crawford and hotelier Walter Isenberg found themselves getting a martini in Denver's Oxford Hotel. Located in the historic Lower Downtown, or 'LoDo,' area, the [...]

1 First thing first: the experience will not equal the channel. WiII banks have branches 10 years from now? Yes. Will they have mobile apps? Yes. ATMs? Maybe--the persistence of [...]

Libor--the London Interbank Offered Rate--is perhaps the liveliest dead man walking. It underpins more than $350 trillion in mortgages, commercial loans, bonds and derivatives worldwide; U.S. dollar Libor alone is [...]

For a banker in the early part of his or her career, big achievements might seem out of reach--the kind of career peak one reaches only after decades of experience. [...]

After a slow start, most of President Trump's nominees for financial regulatory posts are in office or on their way to confirmation. One thing many of them share: experience working [...]

Dorothy Savarese tells a story about a humbling discovery she made shortly after moving to Cape Cod and how it reflects the heart of community banking. She already had 16 [...]

The year is only half past, but 2016 is well on its way to joining 2011, 2012 and 2014 in a dubious distinction: a year that zero new U.S. banks [...]

December 2015 brought a setback to the banking industry as--after years of advocacy and effort--Congress failed to include meaningful regulatory relief in the omnibus spending bill, an outcome that ABA [...]

From Butch Cassidy to Bonnie and Clyde, bank robbers have always had a pop culture mystique. But bank robberies are no Hollywood storyline for bank employees and customers, whose safety [...]

Community bankers are being urged to stress test their portfolios. Here's how they're making the most of it. In 1928, a pair of heart researchers conducted an experiment. They took [...]

Rob Nichols strides into the room with a warm smile. The tip of his nose is sunburned. 'I forgot I was getting my picture taken today,' he admits. 'I was [...]

Building a culture of generosity and personal investment can pay off for banks. Research from Wharton professor Adam Grant offers some clues about how. TWO years ago, Adam Grant became [...]

There are as many paths to the community bank C-suite as there are bankers in those jobs. Some rise through the ranks at a single institution. Others move from bank [...]

For a growing share of bank customers--especially millennials and their successors, Generation Z--mobile banking is where they will engage with their customers most frequently. According to Federal Reserve figures, 43 [...]

The last time Washington, D.C., was under one-party control was at the beginning of former President Obama's term. As you might recall, generationally significant legislation made it through in the [...]

As Congress and the executive branch consider financial regulatory relief efforts, the independent banking agencies are continuing with several initiatives that banks need to be ready to address. The pace [...]

On a chilly November day in Philadelphia In 1816, Condy Raguet was walking down Chestnut Street, mulling over reports he had read about the then-novel savings bank model in Great [...]