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APRIL 22, 2019 | VOLUME 154, NUMBER 16 | BANKERSDIGEST.COM TEXAS Broadway Bank Announces Board Succession; ARKANSAS Names Ladensohn Chair with Goudge’s Retirement Louisiana’s IberiaBank In late March, Broadway Bank an- Ladensohn holds a Names Presidents for nounced that DAVID LADENSOHN has BS degree in finance Northeast and Northwest been named chairman of the board of from the Wharton directors, following School at the Arkansas Regions the retirement of University of On April 2, Lafayette, Louisiana-based chairman and Pennsylvania and an IberiaBank announced two promo- longtime Broadway MBA degree in tions—presidents for its markets in Banker JAMES D. international Northeast and Northwest Arkansas. GOUDGE. Ladensohn business from GOUDGE MICHAEL A. HALLMARK has been retired in 2006 as Pepperdine Univer- named senior vice president/Northeast chairman and CEO sity. He completed the owner/president Arkansas market president. He most of KLN Steel management program at Harvard LADENSOHN recently served as Products Co. and Business School and mediation training the company’s joined the Broadway Bank board in at Harvard Law School. Northeast Arkansas 2013. Prior to his 21-year tenure at KLN “David brings talent, expertise and market manager. Steel Products, he worked for Bank of energy to the board,” says DAVID BOHNE, He joined Iberia- America in a number of capacities, CEO. “At the same time, we couldn’t be Bank in 2006. including vice president and manager of more thankful for Jimmy’s leadership Hallmark is a the Hong Kong corporate banking office. Continued on page 7 graduate of Arkansas State HALLMARK University with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. TEXAS First Financial Bank Promotes Morris CHRIS HOWE has been named senior vice president/Northwest to President and CEO of Fort Worth Region Arkansas market president. He most The board of directors of Abilene-based Morris holds a BS degree from recently worked as First Financial Bank NA announced the Abilene Christian University and an MS Northwest Arkan- promotion of MARCUS MORRIS to degree in finance and economics from sas market president and chief West Texas A&M University. He is also a manager. He executive officer of graduate of the Southwestern Graduate moved to the the bank’s Fort School of Banking at Southern Method- region in 2015 to Worth region. He is ist University. work as commer- replacing MARTIN Morris is active in the Tarrant Coun- cial group manager, NOTO who has ty community, serving on the board for having joined HOWE accepted a position the parks and recreation department IberiaBank in 2009. with a Dallas bank. of the City of Keller and as a volunteer Howe is a graduate of the University of Morris started at for the Keller Education Foundation. He Arkansas with a degree in commercial MORRIS First Financial Bank is a member of the Keller Chamber of banking. in 2010 as a commercial loan analyst in Commerce and Leadership Keller. Founded in 1887, IberiaBank oper- Abilene. In 2012, he was promoted to First Financial Bank NA is a subsid- ates locations in Louisiana, Arkansas, commercial loan officer in Keller, iary of First Financial Bankshares Inc., Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Florida, specializing in commercial real estate, which operates multiple banking regions Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, working capital and equipment loans. with 73 locations in Texas. • Mississippi, Missouri and New York. • PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY EXCEPT THE FIFTH MONDAY OF THE MONTH TEXAS Community National Bank Announces Several Executive Promotions and a New Hire STUART BEALL has been promoted to ex- ance officer. In addition to numerous ecutive vice president and chief lending years of experience in banking compli- officer for Midland-based Community ance, he is also a 10-year veteran of the National Bank. He has more than 13 U.S. Air Force. Tarin graduated from the ESTABLISHED 1942 years of banking industry experience University of the Incarnate Word in San (USPS 041180) and has been with Community National Antonio with a degree in interdisciplin- Bank since 2005. Beall earned his BBA ary studies and an MBA degree. Southwest banking news degree from Angelo State University. DAISY SOLIS has been promoted published every Monday except BRAD BULLOCK has been promoted to assistant vice president. She joined the fifth Monday of the month at to executive vice president and chief Community National Bank in 2014 as 1700 Rio Grande St., Ste. 100 operations officer. 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POSTMASTER Send address changes to Bankers Digest 1700 Rio Grande St., Ste. 100 Austin, Texas 78701 © 2019 BANKERS DIGEST TARIN SOLIS QUIROZ BINGHAM 2 | Bankers Digest April 22, 2019 Preparing for Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IS TRANSFORMING ALL INDUSTRIES, including financial services. To learn how banks are dealing with the transformation, A analytics leader SAS and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) conducted a survey last December of more than 2,000 representatives from across the financial services industry on the roles AI currently plays in their work flow and/ or the roles they expect it to play in the near future. Those surveyed included bankers, “Financial services organizations are investment banking/securities professionals and wealth/asset managers—specifically striving to compete in the new AI-driven targeted at financial services positions with a risk-related role. For the purposes of the marketplace,” says TROY HAINES, senior survey, AI included machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, vice president and head of the risk man- forecasting and optimization. agement division at SAS. “It is important for firms to bring together risk profes- sionals and data scientists to examine The survey reveals that 81 percent cited a skills gap to using AI. More than well-defined, real-world problems that of risk professionals in the financial half of respondents (52 percent) said can be addressed with AI. Not every services industry have already seen they were at least somewhat concerned problem requires an AI solution, but it benefits from AI technologies. The top that their firms lack the necessary skills is important for risk professionals to be areas where respondents are reaping to implement and maintain AI. knowledgeable of the available tech- those returns include improved process automation (52 percent), credit scoring ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY, OF THOSE NOT YET USING ANY FORM OF (45 percent) and data preparation (43 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 84 PERCENT PLAN TO BE USING MACHINE LEARNING percent). Around one-third of respon- dents also reported seeing benefits AND NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. from model validation, calibration and selection. They also listed many challenges to nologies, so they can choose the best “At this point there’s little doubt that further adoption. A large majority of re- option to address their challenges.” AI is here to stay, and that is no differ- spondents said that among the biggest Download the full report, Artificial