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I’ve been in banking for a while now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that we’re a cautious bunch. We’re trained to be. As risk managers, we’re a weird mix of optimistic relationship-builders and skeptical credit analysts. We’re the people who drive past a new development and immediately start wondering about its occupancy …
Barret School of Banking Announces 2024-2025 Board of Regents: Jennifer Nunley Elected Board Chair Memphis, TN (November 6, 2024) – The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking today announced the election of its 2024-2025 Executive Committee during its fall Board meeting Jennifer Nunley, CEO of Security Bank in Dyersburg, TN will serve as …
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We wrapped up our Personal Branding elective yesterday here at the Barret Graduate School of Banking led by the incomparable Emily Mays. For content creators, sometimes life just hands you the perfect situation that goes right along with something at work and provides a great illustration. For songwriters, we think of this as the …
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“One of the biggest concerns we have is for community banks that do not believe they have any weaknesses.” –Gerrish’s Musings December 28, 2023 I can’t agree with this statement any more if I tried. It should be the entire content of the blog post or just be looped over and over to make …
Memphis, TN (November 8, 2023) – The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking today announced the election of its 2023-2024 Executive Committee during its fall Board meeting. Ray Skinner, CEO of Mission National Bank in San Francisco, CA will serve as Board Chair. Joining Skinner on the Executive Committee are: Jennifer Nunley (Chair-Elect) …
I really wanted to do one of my “pipe rants” (as Chris likes to call them) and I might, but I wanted to put this idea out there first. Plus…it’s too hot in Memphis right now! Earlier this week, we had Pete Nelson with AgLaunch on our Barret Ag Lending Roundtable for Q2. Pete is …
Realigning Risk Management: What If You’re Wrong? Read More »
A few days ago, I read an article from Yahoo! Finance about AI’s use in providing financial advice for investors. As one would suspect, the younger then age of the investor, the more likely they are to use AI for investment advice. No real earth-shattering news there. There is still a considerable amount of distrust …
“SkyNet”, Investment Advice, and one terrible dad joke Read More »
I was on a live stream yesterday with my friend, Ben Pankonin from Social Assurance and he asked me a great question about how the recent bank failures will impact what we do at the Barret School of Banking. It’s great question. It’s a timely question. I think it speaks right to the heart of …
What do the recent bank failures mean for banking education? Read More »
Memphis, TN (November 15, 2022) – The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking today announced the election of its 2022-2023 Executive Committee during its fall Board meeting. Jim Gowen, Jr., CEO of Merchants & Planters Bank in Newport, AR will serve as Board Chair. Joining Gowen, Jr. on the Executive Committee are: Ray …
We can just about set our clocks by it. Throughout the year, the Barret staff will get several emails in between graduate school sessions about the number, depth, and complexity of the case studies. In truth, they are very similar to (and in some cases, the exact same) as the case studies you would receive …
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