CBA's Suite 550 Consumer Bankers Association

From Eastern Bank President, CBA Board Member and Chair of CBA’s Education Council to serving on the boards of more than a half dozen community organizations in the Boston area, Quincy Miller knows the value of giving back. He joins CBA President and CEO Richard Hunt to discuss diversity, equality and inclusion efforts within the banking industry, why he believes the most recent focus on these important issues will be different, how banks rallied around businesses and communities during the COVID pandemic as well as some of his role models and mentors.


 

Synchrony has made headlines of late by moving to a remote-first work model, but despite the option of working in PJs, the bank is anything but sleepy as it sits at the forefront of a rapidly changing digital age.  CBA Board Member and Synchrony Head of Consumer Bank Samantha Melting chats with CBA President and CEO Richard Hunt about the work-from-home shift and how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to digital banking. Samantha also talks about how she solves problems, personal savings and Synchrony’s award winning financial “edu-tainment” offerings.


 

 
After two decades covering the regulations, policies, trends and people impacting the banking industry, former Editor-in-Chief of American Banker Rob Blackwell joined IntraFi as their Chief Content Officer. Rob chats with CBA President and CEO Richard Hunt about his insights and opinions on what the incoming Biden Administration should focus on first, how the pandemic has shifted the public’s view of the banking industry, working with the CFPB, consolidation in the banking industry and media as well as what the Dodd-Frank Act has meant for the industry a decade after it was signed into law. 
 

CBA’s Board Chair Christine Channels with Bank of America joins CBA President and CEO Richard Hunt to discuss the impact the COVID pandemic has had on the banking industry, the role banks have played in providing assistance to customers and small businesses, as well as the future of the industry and how banks are stepping up to address top-of-mind issues like racial and gender equality.


 

The banking industry has been at the forefront of America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this podcast CBA Board Members Rich Gold, President and Chief Operating Officer with M&T Bank, and Brant Standridge, Head of Retail Community Banking with Truist, discuss decisions to alter branch services to protect customer and employee health, the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program which saved an estimated 30 million jobs and even give a few quarantine television recommendations.

 
While CBA’s podcasts generally feature bank executives or focus on banking trends, this episode takes a look at the Seila Law vs. CFPB case being taken up by the Supreme Court. Hear CBA General Counsel David Pommerehn and Norton Rose Fulbright’s Jonathan Franklin and Peter Siegal discuss CBA’s amicus brief, the legal arguments and ramifications the Court’s ruling could have.