Bank Nerd Corner

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Dan McGonegle, a senior manager at Crowe and the former manager of the novel activities supervision program at the Federal Reserve Board.Kiah and Dan chat about their Money 20/20 game plan before moving into a broad conversation about bank chartering activity and the application process. It can be a lot to keep up with: A number of companies have applied for charters ranging from industrial loan charters, full commercial bank charters and national trust charters. There’s

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Trent Sorbe, chief payments officer at First International Bank and Trust, for this episode of Banker’s Hours. Banker’s Hours explores the personalities in banking for some real talk on important, interesting and fun topics. Trent has specialized in payments over his career, and that has led him into the land of payments technology and banking as a service. First International, which includes the Kotapay division Trent oversees, is the $5.5 billion bank unit of Watford

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes BJ Sanford and Matthew Lambert to discuss the 2019 case, Vullo v. OCC, an important and somewhat-unsettled case that continues to have downstream impacts in the financial services space today.BJ is a partner at Sivon, Natter & Wechsler. Matthew is deputy general counsel at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Together, they explore the history of the proposed special-purpose charter, the arguments that both the CSBS and New York made against the OCC and some of the

It’s finally Alex Johnson’s turn to be a guest on Bank Nerd Corner for a monthly download and recap of interesting items in the banking and fintech universe. He and Kiah record for the first time together, in the Washington, DC, offices of Canapi Ventures, ahead of the Fintech Takes Coworking day. In a lively conversation, we talk about banks getting together in the form of M&A, including why buyers are acting now and what it tells us about the direction of the rest of the industry. We

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Todd Phillips, an assistant professor at the Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, to discuss a not-so-theoretical thought experiment about the intersection of artificial intelligence, deposit stability and bank liquidity, Todd’s paper, “When Siri Becomes Deposit Broker,” explores the implications for banks if consumers and businesses widely adopt agentic artificial intelligence capabilities that could automatically and autonomously move customer funds

Bank Nerd Corner welcomes Chris Nichols, the director of capital markets at SouthState Bank Corp., for the inaugural episode of Banker’s Hours. Banker’s Hours explores the personalities in banking for some real talk on important, interesting and fun topics. Chris is a writer in addition to being a banker. He shares why he gives so many secrets away in his popular financial blog “Banker to Banker” and how he identifies operational, performance or technology topics to write about. We discuss

Bank Nerd Corner is back with Kiah Haslett returning … not just as co-host, but as an official member of Fintech Takes! That’s right, big news: Bank Nerd Corner will soon be its own podcast feed, with Kiah hosting (and Alex dropping in monthly as a guest). Kiah’s podcast launches this September alongside her new weekly newsletter, Fintech Takes Banking! If you’re listening to this episode, you basically asked for it (sign up at fintechtakes.com/banking/newsletter-subscription). Now, onto