By Ali Shoup, Vice President, Core Bank I made a change in January 2018 to join the Core Bank team and was welcomed with open arms. During our on-boarding process, I discovered a policy that I had never experienced in the 20 years of my banking career. Core Bank...
By Gita Smith, Vice President - Administration Manager, Core Bank On Thursday, November 8th, Core Bank held a “Founders Club Appreciation” event to thank the businesses that have entrusted us with their lending and banking needs. The event was held at the Kansas City...
By Alicia Walker, SBA Relationship Manager, Core Bank As a parent, I’m often humbled by the lessons in selflessness that I learn from my son. Here is one such lesson that I was grateful to learn. Hurricane Michael After Hurricane Michael, I flew to Panama City Beach,...
By Michele Walters, Vice President SBA Commercial Relationship Manager, Core Bank We've been celebrating veterans recently and I wanted to feature a veteran that I highly respect… his name is Adam Turk. The Idea Last summer, (2017) I received a call from Adam and he...
By Alicia Walker, SBA Relationship Manager, Core Bank How many times have you heard the saying, "If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again?" Well, what if you DO succeed? Then, what do you do? If you follow the example of Andrew and Frank Potter, owners of RoKC,...
By Alicia Walker, SBA Relationship Manager, Core Bank I’ve been a small business owner for over eleven years and a business banker for twice as long. I continue to be fascinated by the "why I got started in business" stories of my clients. Sometimes, those stories are...
By Jason Moxness, Market President, Core Bank Question: What happens when you put 30 hungry sharks in a room with 10 Entrepreneurs? Answer: You witness an outpouring of generosity and support for some of KC’s best and brightest creative thought leaders! Where did all...
By Ali Shoup, Vice President, Core Bank The old adage, HELP WANTED. What does this mean in today’s world of record-low unemployment and a multi-generational workforce? It means; a timely opportunity for talent to be rewarded, unprecedented pressure for companies to...
By Scott Schulz, Vice President, Mortgage Lending, Core Bank It was an odd time to be thinking of the band One Direction. Just a few seconds earlier I was laughing with my family, enjoying a fast section of river during our Colorado white water rafting trip this past...
By Bridget Clark, SBA Credit Manager, Core Bank Most Bankers require coffee in the morning for their brains to function properly. I'm one of those rare Bankers who doesn't drink coffee, but I'm fully aware that I should never talk to, or look a Banker in the eye,...
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