Banking, Baseball, and Lipstick on a Pig
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Spring training has begun for baseball. It is the time of year when, if you live in Northern climates, you begin to believe that the cold will…
Highlights topics related to innovation and new directions.
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Spring training has begun for baseball. It is the time of year when, if you live in Northern climates, you begin to believe that the cold will…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Relationship management conjures up the image of an experienced relationship banker (RM) meeting one-on-one with clients and advising them about their financing, cash management, or other needs….
Printer-friendly version (PDF) FIC recently completed an analysis of Independent equipment finance and leasing companies for the Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation (ELFF). The ELFF is the leading association for…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This year’s American Banker Small Business Conference, just concluded in wonderful Nashville, may have been the best I’ve ever attended. There was more electricity in the air…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) The American Banker’s Small Business Banking Conference begins this week. Reviewing the key topics being covered provides some insights into the issues that are top of mind….
Printer-friendly version (PDF) This week we continue our conversation with Sandy Berry in which he comments on leadership in banking and the changes bankers should consider. As with the last…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) As outlined in two earlier FIC newsletters, the Deep State within banks (in short, bureaucrats, inflexible rule setters, innovation killers,) slows decision making, increases operating costs, marginalizes…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Last week this newsletter focused on discussing the existence of a Deep State in banking that, in its own way, is every bit as powerful as the…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Many banks are being run or at a minimum highly influenced by the entrenched Deep States operating within them. The Deep State group in banks is every…
Printer-friendly version (PDF) Companies need to pick their spots, deciding where to focus and whom to focus on. Inevitably, banks that do not focus and act selectively in what they…