It wasn’t fun hearing FDIC Director Sheila Bair report this week on the state of the banking industry. Going forward, only those community banks drafting a new playbook during today’s Dark Ages will have a shot at attending the next gen community banking conferences a decade from now. [Read more]
Q2 2008 will be remembered as a time when the banking industry’s tenuous optimism about a light recession and mild credit issues turned into the worst environment in 30 years. [Read more]
We now join the first psychiatric session of Wally Thornburger, a branch manager at the Wrongway National Bank, who was recently promoted to branch manager after his boss went on an unplanned “sabbatical.” Taking advantage of a new workplace benefit at Wrongway Bank, Wally is hopeful about the first meeting with his psychiatrist, “Sig”. [Read more]