written by by Gregg Early, BankTalentHQ Let’s not talk about the past year. Let’s take the long view and talk about the past decade and a half. For nearly all of that time we lived in a “next normal” of quantitative easing, which brought along with it easy money and sustained low interest rates.…
written by by Gregg Early, BankTalentHQ Let’s not talk about the past year. Let’s take the long view and talk about the past decade and a half. For nearly all of that time we lived in a “next normal” of quantitative easing, which brought along with it easy money and sustained low interest rates. It…
By Neal Reynolds, President, BankMarketingCenter.com I was thinking… what better way to tell the “why ChatGPT” story than to, well, let ChatGPT’s AI writing assistant tell you himself… or herself… not sure about this… maybe “itself”? Anyway, when I prompted the assistant to “write a 750-word article on how to get the most of out…
By Jim Reber, ICBA Securities If your responsibilities include your community bank’s bond portfolio, you’ve been confounded by several elements of its performance in the last 18 months. To the extent your portfolio has mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and government agency bonds, and the clear majority of all bonds owned by banks are in these two…
Written by Elizabeth Madlem, Vice President of Compliance Operations and Deputy General Counsel at Bankers Alliance “Keep it long enough and it will come back into fashion.” The early 2000s are remerging with their crop tops, low rise jeans, flip phones, and mortgage buydowns. Deja-vu! Pre-crisis’ teaser rates have been reborn into mortgage buydowns, both…
The Time is Now for Future Bank Leaders Program John Sullivan NCBA The North Carolina Bankers Association (NCBA) is partnering with Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) and NC banks on the Future Bank Leaders program. The goal of this custom-designed initiative is to attract undergraduates to the dynamic, fast-changing world of modern banking,…
“Umoja- Unity” Eva Ogden, Pinnacle Financial Partners Partnership with The Center for New North Carolinians: Umoja Women’s Refugee Support Group There are an estimated 242 languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). One of these languages is Swahili. In Swahili, Umoja means UNITY. As our NC Central DEI Council members first…
Printer Friendly Visit us online: Website | NCBA LinkedIn | NCEL LinkedIn | InstagramNCBA Members, Recent events with the bank failures in California and New York have created uncertainty about the strength of the banking system in the media and among customers. The NCBA spent the past weekend on the phone with bankers and members of…
Written by Neal Reynolds, President, BankMarketingCenter.com We all know that every company in every industry faces the risk of a cyberattack that threatens their data security. And we all know that the likelihood of an attack — ever more sophisticated attacks, too — is growing every day. Banks, of course, are high value targets for cybercriminals: they…