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The Core Bank blog serves as a resource for customers to learn more about topics like financial literacy, loans, digital banking, real estate, business, and community events. We’re your go-to source for all things banking-related!
Latest Articles
Employee Spotlight – Scott Schulz, VP of Mortgage Lending & Overland Park Sales Manager
By Scott Schulz, Vice President, Mortgage Lending, Core Bank My career path is not unique: start at a large company for the initial experience then work your way to where you want to be. From national banking behemoth to large regional bank franchise to local bank...
Kansas City Business Journal: A surprise leader emerges for the KC area’s SBA loans
Core Bank’s Kansas City team is emerging as a leader for the area’s SBA loans. In our first full year in the Kansas City area, we made $14.79 million in local Small Business Administration loans through the first half of the federal fiscal year — two times more than...
An Ode to the Mom Purse
By Bridget Clark, SBA Credit Manager, Core Bank There was a time, long, long ago, where I could buy cute little purse, big enough to carry my identification, lip gloss, and a breath mint and I was ready to go out into the world. I wasn’t prepared for the amount of...
Want to do things differently? Go Left.
By Tricia Luedke, Vice President, Private Banking, Core Bank Doing something different isn’t easy but with strong leadership, ambition and the ability to learn from new opportunities why not try to Go Left? As I was watching my eight-year-old play basketball for the...
Pedal to the Metal – Face in the Sun
By Gita Smith, Senior Administration Officer, Core Bank “OK Gita, its 6:30 p.m. Pack it up and go home.” I look up from my computer screen to see our Market President, Jason Moxness, standing in my office doorway. “I will,” I respond smiling, knowing it will be...
Core Bank Cares: We Give Where We Live
April is Community Banking Month and a perfect time to showcase one of the many reasons to bank local: the deep roots we have in our community. To continue empowering our employees to support our friends and neighbors, we started a giving program called Core Bank...
Super Women Business Series: The Fabric Chic, LLC
By Alicia Walker, SBA Relationship Manager, Core Bank “Fabric of the Universe” After her home “world” was destroyed by an unexpected, disastrous event (or you can call it the downsizing of her Vice President position after being in the corporate “world” for over 25...
Employee Spotlight: Erin Robinson
By Erin Robinson, SBA Loan Administrator, Core Bank When I was in elementary school and middle school, I thought I knew what I wanted to be when I got older – a kindergarten teacher. Then in high school, I decided I wanted to get into politics – the behind the scenes...
Do you have Socks Appeal?
By Jason Moxness, Market President, Core Bank Last summer, I wrote a blog about my personal Revolution (or maybe Evolution) about my battle with every banker’s strangling nemesis – the classic neck tie! I'm happy to report that I'm now 183 days free from the bondage...
Welcome to Core Bank: Ali Shoup
By Ali Shoup, Vice President, Core Bank This is my "Welcome to Core Bank" blog. I’ve never written a blog, I’ve never been asked or had the opportunity. Why this matters… we’ll get to that in a minute. I’ve been a Banker for twenty years this month. I started my...
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