By Michele Walters, Vice President SBA Commercial Relationship Manager, Core Bank Have you ever heard the old adage “Banker’s Hours”? There was a time long, long ago when bankers would work between the hours of 8:00am to 3:00pm. I remember growing up and my mother...
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 Michele Walters, Vice President SBA Commercial Relationship Manager, Core Bank As the weekend approached, I kept telling my miniature Schnauzer pups, Rosco and Sammy, "Oh my goodness… you have no idea what is going to happen this weekend!" I could hardly wait for...
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...
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...
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...
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