Travillian Next

Travillian Next

Travillian Next, launched in early 2020, is dedicated to producing original, behind-the-scenes content for the banking & fintech industries. http://www.travilliannext.com/

  1. 22h ago

    Playing the Hits! A Roundtable Discussion with Bridgewater Bank’s Joe Chybowski, AllianceBernstein’s Michael Howard, and Performance Trust’s Matt Shields

    Capital is flowing again for community banks but deploying it well is the hard part. Bridgewater Bank's Joe Chybowski, AllianceBernstein's Michael Howard, and Performance Trust's Matt Shields join Travillian's Brian Love for a roundtable on capital structure, what investors reward, bank M&A, deposits, and succession in 2026. A candid look at what earns investor confidence and whaterodes it fast.

  2. Jul 8

    A Six-Year Build, Not a Three-Month Win: Patrick Slain of Stearns Bank on the BaaS Long Game

    Everyone's talking about Banking-as-a-Service. Almost no one has actually built it — and even fewer have done it twice. Patrick Slain has. In this episode, the Stearns Bank fintech lead sits down with host Amber Buker to get real about what building a BaaS program takes: why it's a six-year commitment, how to keep it aligned with the bank's risk appetite, what separates a great fintech partner from a deal you should walk away from, and why the industry's loudest debates miss what customers actually want. A candid look at doing BaaS the patient way.

  3. Jun 24

    Community Banking’s Stablecoin Moment: Why Now Is the Time to Act

    Stablecoins are moving from the headlines into the banking system, and community banks are paying attention. In this episode of Travillian Next, Alex Treece, CEO and Co-Founder of Stablecore, and Branden Hansen, President at Bank of Utah, join Travillian's Keith Daly to discuss why now is the moment for community banks to act. They cover the GENIUS Act and clearer regulation, a stablecoin market that's grown from about $30 billion to $330 billion with trillions projected ahead, real-world use cases like cross-border payments and smart contracts, the risk to low-cost deposits, and why community banks may be better positioned to win than they think.

  4. Jun 17

    What’s Changing in Bank Compliance, From Regulatory Oversight to AI: Ian Moloney, Chief Policy Officer at AFC

    Bank regulation has shifted fast over the last 18 months, and Ian Maloney, Chief Policy Officer at the American Fintech Council, joins Keith Daly on Travillian Next to break down what it means for bank compliance and risk teams. They get into why the prudential regulators are more coordinated, how reputation risk left the exam handbooks in favor of material financial risk, and the first CAMELS rating rewrite since 1996. Ian also lays out where AI governance, model risk, and fair lending stand for banks, how AI is reshaping fraud detection, and what the 2026 midterms could mean for bank supervision. A clear status check for anyone working in banking, fintech, compliance, or risk.

  5. Jun 10

    The Bank Failure That Sent a Ripple Through American Banking: Steve Plunk’s Lessons from Penn Square

    Steve Plunk was the OCC examiner at the center of the Penn Square Bank collapse, one of the most consequential bank failures in American history. He sits down with Travillian's Amber Buker to revisit the oil-fueled bank that fooled the biggest names in banking, the one line on the balance sheet that brought it down, and where that same blind spot is hiding in banks today. A special conversation from the collaboration series between Travillian Next and Maxfield on Banks.

  6. Jun 3

    Brent Beardall & Simone Lagomarsino: Two Bank CEOs on Leadership, M&A, and the Deal That Made Them Family

    Brent Beardall, President and CEO of WaFd, Inc., joins Brian Love to tell the story of his rise from a bank file room to the CEO seat. Partway through, he gets surprised on camera by Simone Lagomarsino, the former CEO of Luther Burbank Savings, the bank WaFd acquired. The two cover leadership, the WaFd and Luther Burbank merger, surviving the 2023 banking crisis, and why banking is still a noble profession. A good listen for anyone thinking about leadership, succession, or M&A in community banking.

  7. May 27

    Travillian’s Conference Crawl: What Amber & Brian Heard at Finovate, D.A. Davidson, Alloy Labs, and S&P Global

    Travillian's bank & fintech recap from May 2026: Amber Buker, Chief Research Officer, and Brian Love, Head of Banking & Fintech Search, recap the month's biggest banking and fintech conferences (Finovate, D.A. Davidson, S&P Global, and Alloy Labs in Nashville). The honest, occasionally goofy conversation covers young bank executive talent, succession planning, stablecoin and tokenized deposits, AI in the boardroom, bank-fintech partnerships, and the Wild West of bank M&A ahead in H2 2026. Take the Travillian Bank-Fintech Fault Line Diagnostic: https://travilliangroup.com/fault-line-diagnostic/ Reach Brian at blove@travilliangroup.com or Amber at abuker@travilliangroup.com.

  8. May 20

    CEO Matthew Smith on Building Rhinebeck Bank's Next 160 Years

    Rhinebeck Bank President and CEO Matthew Smith joins Travillian Next for a candid conversation about leading a 160-year-old community bank into its next chapter. Six months into the role at the $1.3 billion publicly traded bank in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matt shares how he is thinking about balancing 1950s-style community service with 2026 technology, building a culture of diversity of thought, and setting the strategic direction for the next 3 to 5 years. Matt brings a tech-forward background from Sterling, Webster, and the world of banking as a service into a traditional community bank, and the conversation is one other CEOs and boards should be paying attention to. It covers the opportunity cost of standing still, open architecture and the fast follower strategy, how Rhinebeck is competing against megabanks, fintechs, and big-box retailers all at once, and the talent profile community banks need to hire for now: experience design, enterprise architecture, payments innovation, data science, and AI fluency. Matt also walks through Rhinebeck's second step conversion, what it unlocks for capital and M&A, and offers direct advice for aspiring community bank CEOs and the boards thinking about hiring them. Whether you lead a bank, sit on a board, or are building your career toward the C-suite, this is a practical conversation about the new wave of community banking leadership.

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Travillian Next, launched in early 2020, is dedicated to producing original, behind-the-scenes content for the banking & fintech industries. http://www.travilliannext.com/

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  • Creator
    Travillian Next
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    149
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Travillian Next
  • Show Website
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