Banking Weekly
Tom Brown’s Banking Weekly 5/7/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 18 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 5/7/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The ServisFirst recipe for success. ServisFirst Bancshares is a $12.6 billion banking company founded in Birmingham in 2005 that has enjoyed a phenomenal record of success. Last week, CEO Tom…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 4/30/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 17 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 4/30/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Appreciating this unusual earnings season at Capital One. My first earnings season was in July, 1980, and I have not missed one since. That’s a lot of earnings seasons,…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 4/23/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 16 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 4/23/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The rise and fall of NSF fee income. Since the mid-1990s, I have had a real fascination with overdraft (NSF) charges at banks and the evolution of the…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 4/16/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 15 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 4/16/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Challenges facing banks and fintechs in 2021. MX Technologies, a vendor who partners with financial institutions to build data-driven products, sponsored a debate this week about the biggest…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 4/9/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 14 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 4/9/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Damian Kozlowski is turning Bancorp Bank from a cow’s ear into a silk purse. Back in 2012, the investment fund I manage took an equity position in Bancorp…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 4/2/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 13 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 4/2/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: What’s up at LendingClub. It has been a very interesting and eventful year at LendingClub, and the year is only one quarter over. When I talked with CEO Scott…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 3/26/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 12 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 3/26/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: What’s next for Citi? Speaking to the Wall Street Journal last week, recently retired Citigroup CEO Mike Corbat got at the essence of the challenge that new CEO…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 3/19/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 11 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 3/19/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Catching up with Bank of the West CEO Nandita Bakhshi. I hadn’t spoken to Nandita Bakhshi in years, but was able to get on her schedule this week, and…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 3/12/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 10 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 3/12/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Bruce Van Saun has remade Citizens Financial Group. I hate to admit it, but I underestimated how much and how quickly Bruce Van Saun, a former CFO at…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 3/5/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 9 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 3/5/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The story of Alden McDonald and Liberty Bank. Recently, when I was talking to freelance banking writer John Maxfield about his work as executive director of the Wilmers…
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