x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

ABA Banking Journal Podcast

American Bankers Association

Bank executive insights, unique business strategies, regulatory updates from D.C., and fun banking stories—all this and more on the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, brought to you weekly by the American Bankers Association"s award-winning podcast team.

business management

All Episodes

18:19

The real difference between stablecoins and tokenized...

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/09/25

In the wake of the summer’s Genius Act, many banks and nonbanks have announced new stablecoin initiatives. Another digital asset — tokenized deposits — may meet needs similar to stablecoins, but the two asset types have significantly different features based on their underlying designs. On this episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, ABA experts Brooke Ybarra and Yikai Wang discuss: The key differences between stablecoins and tokenized deposits. Risks that widespread payment stablecoin adoption

en

21:06

The ‘capacity crisis’ in leadership today

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/09/18

Princess Castleberry began her career in risk management in financial services, and the biggest risk she sees today is that “leaders are in a capacity crisis.” Work experience, education and professional networks are undermined by this lack of capacity driven by emotional triggers, she says, which are in turn compounded by a massive wave of societal, economic and technological change. Now an instructional design expert and leadership speaker, Castleberry discusses how leaders can understand and

en

22:46

AI, third-party risk and the future of partner banking

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/09/11

The rapid evolution of the financial services marketplace means the market for banking as a service is also evolving rapidly. From artificial intelligence to other new technologies to regulatory expectations, how is the partner bank sector shifting? On the season premiere of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, Pathward Bank CEO Brett Pharr talks about the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based partner bank’s strategy. Among other things, Pharr discusses: The evolution of the business model beyond interchange

en

17:44

Demographic trends shaping the U.S. banking outlook

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/07/30

The U.S. is experiencing a massive demographic shift driven by the aging Baby Boom generation, declining birth rates and shifts in immigration trends. What effect will aging have on the banking outlook? In the season finale of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, ABA economist JP Rothenberg discusses how America’s aging population: Shifts balance sheet management strategies with a surplus of stable deposits by weaker localized loan demand. May increasingly push banks into new markets to drive loan

en

23:11

How institutional banking helps build one regional...

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/07/25

Alongside the commercial and consumer markets, institutional banking is one of three strategic pillars of $70 billion-asset UMB Bank. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, UMB’s Phil Mason discusses: How institutional banking — which includes capital markets, corporate trust, custody and health savings accounts — fits into the business model of the Kansas City, Missouri-based bank and helps extend its footprint coast-to-coast. Investments in technology to support the growth of

en

22:53

The future of careers in risk and compliance

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/07/17

What does the future hold for bank risk and compliance professionals? On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, Krysti Cunningham of Security National Bank in Omaha, Nebraska — and winner of the 2025 Distinguished Service Award for Risk and Compliance — discusses: The technological transformation in risk and compliance at community and midsize banks. How technological change is driving the industry toward specialization. Applications for AI tools and LLMs in risk and compliance —

en

21:07

Breaking down the bank-related provisions in the big...

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/07/10

Following the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, hear from ABA experts on how key ABA-supported provisions on tax policy, rural real estate and health savings accounts in the budget reconciliation law will affect banks. Experts also discuss what to expect next in terms of implementation. Resources Click here to download the episode if you can’t see the player above. View a members-only staff analysis

en

12:06

Inside ABA’s new Treasury Check Verification System API

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/06/26

ABA’s new online platform to provide members with free access to the Treasury Check Verification System is now live. On a special joint episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast and ABA Fraudcast — presented by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest podcast — ABA anti-fraud experts Paul Benda and Hannah Ibberson discuss the platform and how banks can put it to use. Among other topics, Benda and Ibberson discuss: The scale of physical U.S. Treasury checks and why they remained a potential vector for fraud

en

12:14

Staying close to clients amid tariff-driven volatility

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/06/18

Amid tariff-related volatility, how are small and midsize businesses and the banks that serve them faring? On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — presented by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest podcast — John Buran, the president and CEO of Queens-based Flushing Financial discusses how tariff and trade policy-related volatility has compounded commercial client uncertainty based on interest rates over recent months and why uncertainty has slowed loan growth and investment. However,

en

25:10

Old National's Jim Ryan on the things that really matter

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/06/12

Jim Ryan has led Old National Bank through a massive wave of growth — through major mergers and organic growth, the Evansville, Indiana-based bank has reached $70 billion in assets and a footprint that extends from Minnesota to Tennessee. The bank has grown by 250% since Ryan moved into the CEO role in 2019. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — presented by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest podcast — Ryan discusses: The bank’s growing profile, including its new marketing

en

09:18

What bankers need to know about ‘First Amendment audits’

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/06/05

So-called “First Amendment auditors” have long filmed themselves trying to provoke police and other public officials into stopping them from recording in public settings. Now, some auditors are targeting banks, filming for hours outside bank branches and seeking to goad bank employees into calling law enforcement. The latest episode — presented by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest podcast — features tips from bankers and security professionals on how to handle a First Amendment auditor at a bank

en

16:53

Accelerating banking for quick-service restaurants

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/05/08

As independently owned and operated small businesses, fast-food restaurant franchisees have unique business needs. They have mobile and often part-time workforces, complex inventory management and the constant challenge of managing both a small business and being the face of a major brand. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by Bix2x — Wendell Bontrager talks about how Sonata Bank is working with this unique market segment. For example, “we can come in at fractional

en

22:17

How a Georgia community bank supports...

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/05/01

Government-guaranteed lending requires special expertise and back-office functionality that grows increasingly expensive for smaller banks. On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by Bix2x — Chris Hurn and Jeremy Gilpin of Community Bankshares, a bank holding company in La Grange, Georgia, discuss how they are tackling that challenge. “To start one of these departments is very expensive for a lot of rural banks and credit unions,” says Gilpin, “It’s very prohibitive to

en

22:49

Quantum computing’s shakeup in payments, cybersecurity

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/04/24

Quantum computing is an entirely new way of processing information, and it has the power to solve extremely difficult computational problems much more quickly than binary computers. As the technology continues to advance, the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest — explores how payments and banking might be affected by the technology. Among other topics, the episode addresses: Applications for quantum computing in liquidity management and

en

10:51

Why the Fed paying interest on reserves matters

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/04/17

The payment by the Federal Reserve of interest on bank reserves may sound like an abstruse matter of economic theory, but these payments are critical to bank operations and the Fed’s conduct of monetary policy. In the latest episode — sponsored by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest — ABA’s Jeff Huther discusses why proposals to end or reduce interest on reserves are misguided. Among other things, Huther discusses: Why ending payments could have a destabilizing effect on the financial sector. Why,

en

16:59

Travis Hill on the regulatory agenda at the FDIC

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/04/10

ABA’s Washington Summit just wrapped up, and this episode — sponsored by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest — features a main stage conversation with Travis Hill, acting chairman of the FDIC. In this episode, Hill discusses: Revisions to the FDIC’s supervisory appeals process. Transparency in bank merger reviews by regulators. The future of bank capital policy after the Basel III “endgame.” Ethics and operational improvements at the FDIC.

en

18:18

Play ball! Financial education home runs

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/04/03

April is Financial Literacy Month, a time when bankers think creatively about how to engage young people on topics of financial wellness. Citi’s Michelle A. Thornhill and Roads to Success’s Bashan Fernandez for a discussion of Citi’s approach to making financial knowledge fun and engaging. In this episode — sponsored by Intrafi’s Banking with Interest — they discuss several innovative approaches, including: Citi’s financial empowerment workshop for New York City middle schoolers, to be held on

en

12:06

Breaking down the executive order on Treasury checks

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/03/27

In the wake of this week’s significant executive order directing the Treasury to eliminate the use of paper checks for federal government disbursements (and payments to the U.S. government), ABA’s Steve Kenneally joins the podcast for a conversation on what’s next for the payments system. In this episode — sponsored by nCino — Kenneally discusses: The role of Treasury checks in check fraud schemes. The order’s aggressive timeline, with an implementation date of Sept. 30, 2025. The significant

en

19:12

What’s next for stablecoin policy and tech

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/03/20

Legislators and regulators are strongly focused on policy related to payment stablecoins, most recently with the passage of the Genius Act in the Senate Banking Committee. On this episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — presented by nCino — ABA’s Brooke Ybarra and Kirsten Sutton discuss the current policy and technology landscape on stablecoins. Among other topics, they talk about: How stablecoins work and why people are interested in this kind of digital asset. Use cases for payment

en

30:03

How mail theft fuels the check-fraud boom

ABA Banking Journal Podcast ·

2025/03/13

The big story of check fraud is not only its vast cost to the country and to individual victims, but simply the remarkable rate at which it is increasing. On this episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — presented by nCino — we bring you a conversation from the ABA Fraudcast with ABA’s Paul Benda and Caitlin Piasecki of the United States Postal Inspection Service the enormous scale and challenge of addressing mail theft, a common venue for criminals to access paper checks. Piasecki describes how

en

163 results

Similar Podcasts

TaxTalent.com The Golden Rule Podcast

Adam Golden

TaxTalent.com Podcast

Tony Santiago

Nomad Capitalist Audio Experience

Nomad Capitalist

Supply Shock

Blockworks

RadioBorsa - La tua guida controcorrente per investire bene nella Borsa e nella Vita

SoldiExpert SCF