In this episode, Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association sits down for a chat with James Beckwith, President & CEO of Five Star Bank and its holding company Five Star Bankcorp (Nasdaq: FSBC). Mr. Beckwith is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Western Bankers Association.

Steve and James talk about how James got into banking and what he enjoys about the banking industry. James also discusses the challenges he sees facing the industry in the next few years. With James recently becoming the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the WBA, he shares his goals and priorities for WBA during his tenure and he discusses the value proposition of becoming a member of the WBA as well as the value of advocacy.

For more information about Five Star Bank, please visit: www.fivestarbank.com

For more information about the Western Bankers Association, please visit: www.westernbankers.com

In this episode, we chat with the CEO of MANTL, Nathaniel Harley, about online account opening. We discuss the online account opening revolution and what the impact has been for both bankers and customers. Nathaniel shares the biggest opportunities for community banks during these times. Also, we talk about how banks can innovate and still keep their long-standing legacies. Finally, we cover how MANTL is able to mitigate any risks related to fraud when opening new accounts.

Nathaniel Harley, Co-founder and CEO
Nathaniel Harley is the CEO and co-founder of MANTL, an enterprise SaaS company helping traditional financial institutions modernize and grow. Founded in 2016, MANTL’s mission is to expand access to financial services.

MANTL believes that the strategic deployment of technology will define the banking landscape for decades to come. Its whitelabeled software helps community and regional institutions raise billions of dollars in core deposits each year and is up to 10x more cost-effective than building a brick-and-mortar branch.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mantl.com

In this episode we speak with Richard Ormond, Stacy Stubblefield, and Thomas Peistrup. Richard Ormond is a Shareholder at Buchalter and Founder & Chairman at Ejudicate, Inc. Stacy Stubblefield is a Co-Founder of Telesign. Thomas Peistrup is General Counsel at InStyler and an Attorney at Tantalo & Adler LLP. We discuss the current state of cybersecurity in today's digital world and provide some insight on how banks are dealing with these challenges. We also chat about how companies, such as Telesign, are providing multi-factor authentication technology to help banks add an extra layer of security to to their authentication methods.