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Article Library 2000-02
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2002
December 2002
Focus: Corporate Governance
- What Can Bank Directors Learn from Recent Corporate Scandals?
- Strategic Planning for Superior Bank Performance is Worth the Effort
- Best Practices for Audit Committees After Enron
- Mitigating Risk through Effective, Comprehensive Internal Controls
- 10 Commandments for Community Bank Corporate Governance
- Value-creating Directors: Building Strategic Board Capabilities
- Regulation O Pitfalls and Cures
- Character and Corporate Responsibility
- Bankers Recognize Familiar Territory in New Audit Committee Requirements
- The Changing Role of Corporate Governance: Non-qualified Supplemental Retirement Plans
- Counselors' Comments - Crisis Management and Internal Controls: What's a Board Member to do?
Date Authored: October
2002
Focus: Innovative Delivery Systems
- An Interview with FDIC Regional Director Nancy Hall
- Reloadable Stored Value Cards
- Teaching Clients to Keep Earned Revenue
- Staying Connected with Your Customers
- Outsourcing the Mortgage Platform to Retain Customer Relationships
- Customer Contact Centers
- Corporate Cash Management
- Overdraft Privilege - The Ultimate Win-Win Scenario
- Bank-funded Leases
- Banking the Transfer of Wealth
- Risk: A Four-Letter Word
- Wireless Communication through the Ages
- Tech Summit Highlights: Market Changes Create New Solutions for Back-office Dilemmas
Date Authored: August 2002
Focus: Unique Bankers
- Bikin' bankers rule the roads
- What do you want to do when you retire? (Carolyn Horan)
- The seat of my soles (Philip Hamilton)
- "I can do it" banker conquers mountain (Mel Hanson)
- Ain't no mountain high enough (Donald Lafler)
- Bankers of steel - a digest of athletic bankers
- By day, mild mannered bankers... - a digest of bankers working to improve their communities
- Too many suits not to be a banker (Carl Schatz)
- From bank teller to bank owner (Tim Jochner)
- Many years in banking (Alice Lowery & Mae Lacourse)
- Banker keeps the past alive...in his office (Carrol Pruett)
- Banker sings sweet song (Hal Allen)
- Old McBanker had a farm - a digest of bankers with a passion for agriculture
- 'Til debt do us part (Stephanie Wojtecki)
- Fast-talking banker is state's best (Jim Glines)
- Banker is a pro at forecasting (Brent Packard)
- Keeping busy - with exotic hardwoods (Dale Brain)
- The thrill after the hunt (Carol Krawchuk)
Date Authored: June
2002
Focus: Capital Strategies
- The stock buyback: Two experts discuss the value of stock repurchases for community banks
- "Going Private" vs. "Going Public"
- The growth solution: Trust preferred securities and leverage
- Trust preferred securities - a primer on the state of the market
- I know what you did last summer...with the FHLB
- Planning for better stock performance
- Leveraging strategies: Balancing risk and reward
- Community banking: Back to basics
Date Authored: April
2002
Focus: Directors
- The whats, whys and hows of board evaluations
- The audit committee after Enron
- The world according to Sheshunoff
- The case for better corporate governance
- Bank directors and credit administration
- Ten commandments for community bank directors
- Performance management in the board room
- Rewarding directors
- Bringing meaning to the numbers
- Directors Series offers wealth of education opportunities
- When directors are sued, who pays?
Date Authored: February
2002
Focus: Internet Banking
- Myths and misconceptions of Internet banking
- Whom do you trust? Banking online with confidence
- How would your bank respond to an Internet banking intrusion?
- E-commerce reshapes the nation's payments system
- Retention, retention, retention!
- Internet solutions for transaction and item processing sectors
- Essentials for success with Internet banking
- Director's Corner: New technologies pose opportunities and challenges
- Start-up bank uses Internet technology to improve customer relationships
- WIB Service Corp. - your portal for Internet solutions
2001
Date Authored: December
2001
Focus: Human Resources
- Passion, sins and the FDIC Chairman
- Human resources in this century
- Problem credits? Problem employees?
- Change your pay program from a cost into an opportunity
- Looking at stock options on mutual funds
- Long-term care insurance: Not a senior moment for employer or employee
- Human resource administration: Getting help from your correspondent bank
- New tools for accessible and affordable training
- People are never the problem
- A call to leadership
Date Authored: October
2001
Focus: Lending & Credit
- Centralized credit administration improves credit discipline, sales culture
- Wholesale borrowings raise regulatory concerns
- Using SYRAN for credit risk management
- Loan growth strategies for community banks
- Banks lending to banks
- Credit risk management - What directors should know
- Nightmare on Elm Street: A guide for problem loans
- Bank-funded leases: The best of all worlds?
- Does your bank's lending culture focus on the right cash flow?
Date Authored: August
2001
Focus: New Products & Services
- Banking the rich: A discussion of commercial banks and their private banking strategies
- Title insurance: Opportunity for community banks?
- Ten commandments for developing your bank's insurance strategy
- De novo financial charters: a booming business
- The 10 key steps to a successful new bank formation
- "Get Richer...Own the Local Bank" - Revisiting a classic: what have we learned?
- So you want to start a bank? Navigating through the practical and regulatory obstacles.
- Compliance management for new banks
- New banks: building relationships
- Strategic technology decisions for de novo banks
- Director's Corner: Do you have the proper insurance coverage?
- Crossing the chasm between click and brick
Date Authored: February
2001
Focus: Mergers & Acquisitions
- Interview with David L. Kalkbrenner, President & CEO, Greater Bay Bancorp (PDF)
- How to get the most value from a merger or acquisition
- The transition phase of the merger
2000
Date Authored: October
2000
Focus: Directors
- The role of the director in a decade of change
- Evaluating the CEO
- Successful and effective strategic planning
- If I were a bank director
- Ten commandments for dealing with regulators in an uncertain environment
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