In this the new era of banking, our clients are continually looking for ways to enhance efficiency and effectiveness at all levels of their organizations. This line of thinking has led to the revolution of the bank branch and the adoption of many new technologies aimed at serving customers and automating or otherwise increasing process efficiency. Perhaps most importantly, however, banks have begun to

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Bryan Cave colleagues Ken Achenbach and Sean Christy join Jonathan and me on this episode of The Bank Account to examine the ability of banks to gain efficiency through shared services.  Throughout the business environment, business are looking to out source all non-core competencies.  Ken and Sean explore the opportunity for banks to similarly explore the opportunity for banks to join forces to purchase outsourced services and invest in technology platforms together. By working together,

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On the latest episode of The Bank Account, Jonathan and I address two items of significant interest in our office: (a) a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece on the sanity of bank directors, and (b) the start the of college football season (not necessarily in that order).

When starting the podcast, we expected the podcast would offer listeners an opportunity to hear the conversations we have around the office on a wide variety

Bank directors have played a crucial role in the turnaround of the banking industry, an accomplishment that deserves recognition in light of the fact that it has been done under tremendous regulatory burden and tepid economic growth.  Given that, why do we continue to question why the country’s most respected business people would be willing to serve as bank directors?  Respected attorney

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Jonathan and I are joined by our colleague, Jerry Blanchard, to discuss High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) Loans on the latest episode of The Bank Account.

HVCRE Loans are one of the areas of focus on regulatory exams, and we’re seeing increased attention to not only ensuring that a bank’s reported HVCRE loans are correct, but also that the bank has sufficient internal controls in place to monitor and track HVCRE lending.

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On the latest episode of The Bank Account, Jonathan and Ken Achenbach discussed the Federal Reserve’s proposed supervisory expectations for boards of directors.

Before digging into the Federal Reserve’s proposed guidance, Jonathan and Ken first discussed the CFPB’s statistical analysis of frequent overdrafters.  As noted in the CFPB’s analysis, “very frequent overdrafters account for about five percent of all accounts at the study banks but paid over 63 percent of all overdraft and NSF fees.”

On the latest episode of The Bank Account, in preparation #SharkWeek, Jonathan and I discuss unsolicited offers and some of the approaches for bank boards to deal with them.  Topics covered include:

• Senator Warren’s declaration that OCC Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika is a “swamp thing;”
• unsolicited versus hostile
  

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On the latest episode of The Bank Account, Jonathan and I discuss some of the key trends from the first six months of 2017 with regard to the banking industry.  Topics covered include:

• stock market performance (banks down for the six months, but still way up over the last 12 months);
• merger and acquisition activity (same number but larger than last year, plus a more in depth look at North Carolina);
• de novo
  

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On the latest episode of The Bank Account, Jonathan and I were joined by our colleague, Kevin Strachan, to discuss the role and importance of the various proxy advisory services.  Corporate governance continues to be a hot topic in the industry, and the proxy advisory services have a significant sway in determining what provisions are deemed “acceptable” by many institutional investors.

Within the podcast, we look at the two primary proxy advisory services,

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While I continued on a family vacation (which was totally worthwhile), Jonathan and Jim McAlpin recorded an episode of The Bank Account looking at planning a strategic planning session for your bank.  Jonathan and Jim cover a wide array of topics based on their collective experience in assisting dozens of banks with their strategic planning.

Among the multitude of topics covered include:

• thinking about shareholder interests in strategic planning;
• what the “new
  

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