Dallas Wells is joined by Matt Davis, COO of Paragon Bank, to discuss Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). 

In Matt's article for banking.com, he laid out 8 big types of risk that an effective ERM platform should cover. Its one thing to talk about ERM, but is quite another to actually bring all of those very different risks under one umbrella. Matt and Dallas go over what some of the struggles Paragon Bank has either found directly or heard from other banks in managing risks that are often in a silo with their own department?

When your bank crosses the $10 billion mark, you are no longer considered a community bank, you are now a midsized institution. That new label brings with it an enhanced supervisory approach from Dodd-Frank regulations.

There has been a lot written about the impact of these new regulations, but Dallas Wells was lucky enough to talk with Al Dominick from Bank Director about what’s currently happening as well as what to expect moving forward.

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We're changing the name of our podcast to The Purposeful Banker. Where aiming at giving you better, broader insights, more guests and basically taking it up a notch.

Employees are the lifeblood of any company. They embody your company to your customers and the public, and they turn the ideas and strategies into real results.

Hiring employees can be tough. But hiring the BEST employees is even harder. In this episode, Dallas and Jess talk about how to find and keep superstar employees. 

Lenders typically have two sets of negotiations for every deal. First they have to successfully negotiate and win a deal with their borrower, and then they have to negotiate internally to get the deal booked. This means navigating the often difficult waters of credit and loan ops, including pricing approval, credit approval, document prep, and closing.