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Tom Brown’s Banking Weekly 10/22/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 41 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 10/22/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Lunch with Harris Simmons. This week I had a great lunch with Zions Bancorp. CEO Harris Simmons. Afterward, when I got back to my car, I sat for a…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 10/15/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 40 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 10/15/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The steady hand of Bryan Jordan at First Horizon. From the outside, Bryan Jordan always seems so calm, relaxed, and confident, regardless of the situation. This has served him well,…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 10/8/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 39 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 10/8/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Highlights from our annual Financial Services CEO Retreat last week. For most of the last 20 years, Second Curve Capital has sponsored a financial services CEO retreat, which…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 9/24/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 38 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 9/24/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The distortions created by the anti-recession medicine. The federal government and the Federal Reserve responded to last year’s Covid-driven recession with remarkable speed and force. Federal spending rose to…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 9/17/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 37 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 9/17/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: The paths banking organizations will take in this phase of consolidation. In 1983 when I became a bank analyst, the number of FDIC-insured institutions (19,769) declined by 145…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 9/10/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 36 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 9/10/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Debt Collectors Encore Capital and PRA Group. For the last 20 years I have been a big fan of the debt collection business as I have watched it…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 8/27/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 34 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 8/27/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: First Western Financial, a very young First Republic? San Francisco-based First Republic Bank is a great American business success story founded, and still led by, Jim Herbert. It’s a…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 8/20/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 33 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 8/20/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Alliant Credit Union has earned a great reputation. In the 1990s, I got to know Dave Mooney when he was running parts of Chase’s consumer business. In 2003, he…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 8/13/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 32 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 8/13/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Thoughts from M&T’s thoughtful and effective CEO, René Jones. As typically happens, my talk this week with M&T Bank’s René Jones was full of great insights by him. Last…
Read MoreTom Brown’s Banking Weekly 8/6/21
–Copyrighted Material; Do Not Forward, Photocopy, or Redistribute In Any Way– Vol. VI, No. 31 TOM BROWN’S BANKING WEEKLY: 8/6/21 Financial Services Insights and Intelligence FIRST WORD: Triumph Bancorp is creating a new payments network. I didn’t know of Triumph Bancorp, or its CEO, Aaron Graft, 18 months ago, but I have gotten to know…
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