May 2025 – Printable Version
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Read MoreBankers Bancorp Employee Highlight
Ryan Wedel has joined The Bankers Bank as Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending, bringing with him almost 30 years of banking experience – the last 16 years at Landmark National Bank in Kansas. While at Landmark, Ryan successfully led the Commercial Lending team across both metropolitan and mid-market areas, including Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka,…
Read MoreBankers Bancorp Annual Shareholder Meeting
This year TBB returned to the Quail Creek Country Club for its Annual Shareholder Meeting. We were able to recognize outgoing board members Barry Anderson (F&M Bank), Clayton Lodes (First National Bank and Trust Company of Ardmore), and Richard Sims (Wellington State Bank) who have helped lead the bank to its most profitable years ever.…
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by Kas Stewart, SVP & AAP ACH NETWORK If your bank provides international wire services, this proposal will create an alternative. NACHA has issued a request for comments, which are due by May 30, 2025. The purpose of the change is to increase the usefulness of this transaction. In 2024, there were 121 million IAT…
Read MoreFebruary 2025 – Printable Version
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Read MoreBankers Bancorp Employee Highlight
Korbet Moore is a finance professional with experience in credit underwriting, compliance and consulting. He has worked for several years as a consultant, specializing in loan review, interest rate risk analysis, collateral risk management and policy audits. Korbet has developed expertise in stress testing and financial scenario analysis, particularly in relation to asset and liability…
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by Kas Stewart, SVP & AAP ISO20022 It is difficult for me after these many months of including ISO2022 as a hot topic to continue to think that it is hot, but it is! I open every article with more information about ISO20022, and this article is no different. Although the targeted implementation day of March 10,…
Read MoreHow Is Your Bank’s Strategic Plan?
by Miles Pringle, EVP & General Counsel Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” While banks are required to have a strategic plan, examiners are quick to note that there is no one “best” approach. Instead, regulators focus on the reasonableness…
Read MoreNovember 2024 – Printable Version
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Read MoreMeet the Chairman of the Board
In addition to being Board Chairman for The Bankers Bank, Clayton Lodes is CEO at First National Bank & Trust of Ardmore, OK. He is a CPA, and practiced public accounting for over 20 years before joining 1NB in 2002. Clayton has served on the TBB Board since 2018, and also serves on the REI…
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