John Maxfield opens the inaugural banking symposium by exposing a flaw hidden in the literature of banking for over a century.

After energy and commercial real estate crises wiped out the Texas banking industry in the 1980s, a cohort of 'new growth' banks sprung up to nourish in the ashes. Many of these banks have had success, but few can match that of InterBank, a $4.5 billion bank with 46 locations throughout Texas and Oklahoma. In this session, InterBank CEO C.K Lee joins John Maxfield to share the story of Interbank, its iconoclastic chairman Ross McKnight and its unique approach to banking.

John Maxfield identifies and explains the seminal charts of banking, many of which are drawn from proprietary datasets reaching back to the beginning of the United States.

FirstBank Holding Co. is the largest bank headquartered in Colorado and one of the biggest privately held banks in the United States. It also boasts one of the best performance track records among banks of any size in recent decades and has positioned itself among on the technological vanguard. In this session, FirstBank Holding Co. chief executive officer Jim Reuter joins John Maxfield to talk about what makes the Rocky Mountain's hometown bank so unique.

Leadership is perceived as a muscular, masculine exercise. But is this so? Former BB&T and Truist chairman and chief executive officer Kelly King and former American Banker editor Paul Davis discuss a softer, more subjective side of leadership informed by happiness and spirituality.

In the opening session of day two, John Maxfield outlines a new model of American banking, drawn from fifteen year’s worth of rigorous study. The model addresses issues on the individual, institutional and industry-wide levels.

First Financial Bankshares recently confirmed that it has earned a profit every year since its founding in 1890. That’s the longest-known streak among banks in the United States. The bank's chairman and chief executive officer Scott Dueser joins John Maxfield to dissect this achievement.

Four times as many banks have failed in the United States as exist today. The causes of each failure almost invariably mirror dozens, if not hundreds, even thousands, of failures in the past. If only there existed a catalog of failures such that they could be readily avoided in the future. Now there is.

Few people understand banking as well as Mark Lynch, who spent twenty-five years helping build Wellington Management Co. into one of, if not the, leading active investor in the banking space. He has firm grasp not only on the history of banking in America, but also on the lay of the land today.

In The Confidence Map, Peter Atwater introduces a new framework for understanding and improving the decisions we make. His framework is grounded in certainty and feelings of control.

M&T Bank has long ranked atop publicly traded banks when measured by all-time total shareholder return. Its chairman and chief executive officer Rene Jones joins John Maxfield to share M&T’s story and philosophical approach to banking.

A panel of seasoned bank investors, including Sam Haskell, Jonah Marcus, and David Honold talk about how they assess potential bank investments and what they value most from banks right now..

Jim Barresi, a partner at Squire Patton Boggs and head of the firm’s financial institutions practice, talks with John Maxfield about the evolving standards of fiduciary duty and the interplay between these duties, bank performance and executive pay.