OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MONTANA INDEPENDENT BANKERS ASSOCIATION

Pub. 10 2022 Issue 2

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It’s Time to Dust Off Your Economics Textbooks and Develop a Marginal Cost of Funds Culture

Rising Rates: It’s Time to Implement a Marginal Cost Culture in Your Bank
Rates are on the rise. Banks are watching what their competitors are doing with their deposit rates. Richard H. Thaler, Behavioral Economist and recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, once summed up the human gut-level emotion of peer pressure and competition:

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Remember to Connect “Early and Often” with New Employees

As the competition for quality employees increases and hiring needs escalate, there’s more pressure for banks to improve their onboarding process. The last thing a community bank wants to do is restart the time-consuming (and often expensive) hiring process because a new employee voluntarily leaves after just a few months.

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How Financial Institutions Can Support Financial Inclusion

More financial institutions are focusing on improving financial inclusion as the pandemic continues to expose inequalities in access to services. Some institutions have already worked underserved, and under-banked communities are actively engaged in solving the issue, but others might be wondering how to get started.

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James-E.-Brown

Executive Director’s Message

Montana is now well into the Spring months. Having grown up in Montana, this is one of the best times of the year to be a resident of the Treasure State. Spring sees the leaves returning to the trees, the grasses are greening up, bears are coming out of hibernation, and the roads into Glacier National Park are being plowed open.

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