The Slant Podcast

An inside look at the best practices, experiences and insights from today's top banking leaders.

Where Have All the CEO Candidates Gone? 10/11/2023

Where Have All the CEO Candidates Gone? Bank boards that are looking to recruit a new CEO from outside their organization are facing an increasingly shallow talent pool. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/28289624

How Honesty and Engagement Define the Huntington Bancshares Board 09/07/2023

How Honesty and Engagement Define the Huntington Bancshares Board Lead Director Dave Porteous provides insights into culture, crisis and the value of ESG at Huntington. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/27972888

The Biggest Risk in Banking 08/17/2023

The Biggest Risk in Banking RSM Senior Analyst Brandon Koeser says that economic uncertainty is the biggest risk facing U.S. banks today. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/27784542

A Regulator Looks Back 07/06/2023

A Regulator Looks Back Bank Director and Former Executive Vice President for the Federal Reserve Julie Stackhouse learned about leadership during the five years she spent as a very active stay-at-home mom. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/27390474

Customers Bancorp CEO Reflects on Leadership and Having Fun 06/08/2023

Customers Bancorp CEO Reflects on Leadership and Having Fun Jay Sidhu came to the United States from India with hardly a penny in his pocket and built one of the 20 largest banks in the country. He tells his personal story of risk and resilience in this edition of The Slant podcast. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/27084966

An Outsider’s Perspective on Banking 05/04/2023

An Outsider’s Perspective on Banking Eighteen months ago, Arvest Bank hired industry outsider Laura Merling to drive change at the Bentonville, Arkansas-based bank. She relishes the challenge of transforming “people, process and technology” at a legacy organization, rather than coming up with a new product at a startup. In this conversation, Merling shares how she’s motivating the bank’s thousands of employees to embrace change, why it’s important to listen, and the role that technology partners Thought Machine and Google Cloud play in the bank’s transformation. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/26748687

The Chief Customer Officer at ConnectOne Bancorp 04/07/2023

The Chief Customer Officer at ConnectOne Bancorp Frank Sorrentino III wasn’t happy with the customer service he was receiving after his bank at the time was acquired. So he started ConnectOne, where he is its de facto chief customer officer. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/26476557

An Unlikely Journey Through Digital Transformation 03/09/2023

An Unlikely Journey Through Digital Transformation There are probably few bankers in the country who understand the challenges of digital transformation better than Mike Butler. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/26182218

A Former Regulator Confronts Bears and More 02/10/2023

A Former Regulator Confronts Bears and More Jo Ann Barefoot talks fly-fishing, the intersection of regulation and technology, and what it means to be bold. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/25890738

The Origin Story of an Unlikely Banker 01/06/2023

The Origin Story of an Unlikely Banker Today, David Findlay leads one of the most successful banks in the country — but he didn’t show that promise early in his career. He discusses how his past struggles informed his approach to leadership, the ties between training and culture, how commercial banking has changed and his views on the year ahead. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/25527513

A Safecracker Explores the Nature of Security 12/12/2022

A Safecracker Explores the Nature of Security Dave McOmie is a safecracker who has worked on all manner of bank branch safety systems, from vaults to ATMs. He discusses how he became a safecracker, how he approaches a locked door problem and what trends in bank branching mean for vaults and the future of safe cracking. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/25303515

Hitting a Home Run With George Makris 11/17/2022

Hitting a Home Run With George Makris In this episode, Simmons First National Corp.’s Chairman and CEO George Makris, Jr. talks about why he grew the bank from under $4 billion in assets to more than $27 billion today and how he thinks sports builds a mindset for success in life and career. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/25053072

Becoming a CEO 10/21/2022

Becoming a CEO Valley National Bancorp Chairman and CEO Ira Robbins shares his experience in becoming a CEO at the relatively young age of 44, and some of the difficult decisions he had to make along the way. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/24760383

Tales From Bank Boardrooms 09/09/2022

Tales From Bank Boardrooms Corporate governance guru Jim McAlpin says a strong board culture permeates the room, and it’s easy to spot the indicators of a dysfunctional one. He shares his experiences from almost four decades spent working with banks — including the time he broke up a fistfight between directors. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/24326268

Capitalism with a Conscience 08/18/2022

Capitalism with a Conscience In this edition of The Slant podcast, Bank Director talks with Reading Cooperative Bank CEO Julieann Thurlow about financial inclusion, innovation and attracting talent. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/24097878

How High Inflation, High Rates Will Impact Banking 07/20/2022

How High Inflation, High Rates Will Impact Banking Former Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig believes the combination of high inflation and rising interest rates present unique risks to the banking industry. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/23808056

A Look Inside Fifth Third's ESG Journey 06/10/2022

A Look Inside Fifth Third's ESG Journey In a newly created role for Fifth Third, Mike Faillo leads its ESG initiatives, focused on strategy, reporting and uncovering opportunities for the big regional bank. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/23389901

How Ukraine and Inflation Will Impact Banking 05/20/2022

How Ukraine and Inflation Will Impact Banking Keefe Bruyette & Woods CEO Tom Michaud discusses his outlook for banks, including the unlikely event of a recession in 2022. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/23176589

Disability and Opportunity in Banking 04/19/2022

Disability and Opportunity in Banking Keri Cain’s disability fuels her passion for cannabis banking. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/22845608

Margin With a Mission 03/16/2022

Margin With a Mission Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams has an unusual background for a bank CEO. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/22472147

A Front Row Seat on Banking’s Consolidation 02/23/2022

A Front Row Seat on Banking’s Consolidation H. Rodgin Cohen, the senior chair at Sullivan & Cromwell who has advised on many of the largest bank deals in the last 30 years, discusses how consolidation has changed banking, including its impact on community banks. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/22233449

Searching for Value in Bank Stocks 01/14/2022

Searching for Value in Bank Stocks Tom Brown, managing partner of Second Curve Capital — a hedge fund that Brown started 21 years ago to invest in undervalued banks — talks about his management-centric approach to research, the challenges of being a value investor and some of the best (and worst) bank CEOs he's known over the years. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/21776447

"People Who Look Like Me." 12/07/2021

"People Who Look Like Me." Ebony Thomas, who oversees Bank of America Corp.'s $1.25 billion, five-year program to drive racial equality and economic opportunity for people and communities of color, talks about the work she does, and also the importance of diverse role models in today's workplace. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/21405437

The Road Ahead 11/19/2021

The Road Ahead John Asbury, president and CEO of Atlantic Union Bankshares, talks about his board's approach to strategic planning, the rise of inflation and whether the industry's consolidation is close to reaching an endgame. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/21225761

Deep in the Heart of Texas 10/18/2021

Deep in the Heart of Texas Chairman and CEO F. Scott Dueser talks about some of the factors behind its success, his experience during the Covid-19 pandemic -- and an ill-fated cover shoot for Bank Director magazine in 2014. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/20855420

A Bridge Between East and West 09/20/2021

A Bridge Between East and West East West Bancorp has grown from a single branch in Los Angeles' Chinatown to the 40th largest U.S. bank, and one of the country's most profitable. Chairman and CEO Dominic Ng talks about the bank's mission as a bridge between east and west, and his strong public stance against Asian-American prejudice and violence. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/20537063

A Bigger Purpose 08/10/2021

A Bigger Purpose Tradition Capital Bank, a $1.5 billion institution in Edina, Minnesota, donates up to 10% of its profits every year if it achieves certain financial goals. CEO Dan Fagan says the privately-held bank serves a "bigger purpose" than just making loans and collecting deposits. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/20095487

What Huntington's Steve Steinour Expects From His Board 07/19/2021

What Huntington's Steve Steinour Expects From His Board Huntington Bancshares Chairman and CEO Steve Steinour relies on his highly engaged and diverse board for advice across a wide range of issues, and encourages the bank's management team to tap into their expertise at any time. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/19858139

A Second Act for Richard Davis 06/08/2021

A Second Act for Richard Davis Richard Davis details his personal journey from chairman and CEO of U.S. Bancorp to CEO of Make-A-Wish, which makes dreams come true for critically ill children. /episode/index/show/theslantpodcast/id/19404272

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