June 6, 2022

In its seventh annual survey, CSI asked banking executives from across the nation about their top strategies and priorities for 2022. The results were used to inform the 2022 Banking Priorities Executive Report, which details the challenges and opportunities in today’s financial landscape.

As I write this, we are in the last week of the Missouri Legislature’s 2022 regular session. With five days to go, we are still working to pass legislation that would definitively criminalize ATM smash-and-grabs; the issue has been added to several bills we are pushing across the finish line.

Contributors to the MIBA Political Action Committee are recognized for their generosity on the Association’s website and at the MIBA Annual Convention and Exhibition. Different levels of contribution have been set to recognize supporters of our Political Action Committee fund and to make the Association’s membership more aware of this important facet of our work on behalf of the political agenda of community banks across Missouri.

For decades, the most significant and most valuable assets of most banks were physical: buildings, currency, and infrastructure. Today, the most valuable assets for the majority of institutions are digital. These include account data, customer information, intellectual property (plans, templates, standard operating procedures, etc.), correspondence, documents, spreadsheets, and certainly the data that lives in your core applications.

MIBA recently interviewed Aaron Panton about his life, career and work perspectives.

Aaron Panton is a first-generation banker, but he said, “I am hopefully setting the stage for there to be many more generations in the Panton family’s future.”

Where are your main bank and branches located? What is the market like?
Our main bank is in Old Monroe. We have branches in Moscow Mills, Troy, O’Fallon and Wentzville. With branches in both St. Charles and Lincoln counties, we are able to serve a vast array of clients ranging from farming and agriculture to residential construction and commercial lending.

Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code is a fast-track small business bankruptcy option provided by the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA).

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has been in the spotlight for the last two years thanks to the pandemic.

“All in.” That phrase echoed throughout ICBA LIVE this year, and it’s an expression that I have fully embraced. Because it’s more than a saying; it’s a rallying cry for community bankers. Being all in means we put the needs of our customers and our communities first, in three distinct ways:

In community banking, we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We’re always raising the bar for ourselves, our teams and our communities to ensure we provide the best possible services to our customers. It’s our nature to be overachievers, exceeding our customers’ expectations, so we continually grow to meet their needs in new ways.