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On Friday, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which was created to provide immediate support to both households and businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related consequences. The CARES Act appropriates an unprecedented $2 trillion in aid and comes at a time when many…
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DO YOUR PART. #BECYBERSMART Each day, people click or swipe to make an online purchase, register for a webinar, submit a loan application or post on social media. All the while, fraudsters are trying to steal their personal and financial data and use it without their knowledge. So, what should do you if you fall…
On Friday, the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which was created to provide immediate support to both households and businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related consequences. The CARES Act appropriates an unprecedented $2 trillion in aid and comes at a time when many…
Strategic planning means a lot of things to a lot of different people. One problem that exists in corporate America is that the act of strategic planning is undefined and so management teams feel that if they can get to an offsite, sit around a table, work on some budget plans and talk about the…
COLUMBIA, S.C. and WINTER HAVEN, Florida – Feb. 24, 2020 South State Bank and CenterState Bank jointly announced today that they have been named in the top 50 of Forbes’ 100 Best Banks in America. “We intuitively knew we were putting together two of the country’s best banks with the partnership of South State and…
Company Release – 1/27/2020 7:30 AM ET Combined Company Positioned to be a High Performance Financial Institution with Approximately $34 Billion in Assets Serving 18 High Growth Markets in six Southeastern States Merger Creates the 8th Largest Bank Headquartered in the Southeast Financially Compelling Combination for Both Companies’ Shareholders Combines Two Low-Cost Deposit Bases with…
Company Release – 1/16/2020 1:04 PM ET WINTER HAVEN, Fla., Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CenterState Bank Corporation (NASDAQ: CSFL) (the “Company” or “CenterState”) announced today that the Board of Directors of the Company increased its quarterly cash dividend on its common stock from $0.11 per share to $0.14 per share, representing an increase of…
Assume for a second that your company screws up and causes a problem. The customer comes in or calls to complain – Do you apologize? Of course you do – but then what? For the most part, small and mid-sized businesses are fantastic and solving problems and making customers happy. What comes after an apology…
As your company kicks off 2020, one critical factor to get right is to verify if you are targeting not the customers that you have now but the customers that you want for the future. Chances are, at least at some level, you are attracting the wrong customers that are not profitable, not engaged, not…
Commander Bryce Benson was asleep at 1:30 am when the Philippine freighter, the ACX Crystal, rammed the USS Fitzgerald on June 17th off the coast of Japan (Figures 1 and 2). Within seconds the Commander’s stateroom flooded with cold seawater along with Berthing Room 2 that held 35 sailors. Four sailors grabbed sledgehammers, and one sailor…
Throw all the facts that you want at someone, and you won’t move them to a position anywhere near the effectiveness than if you can work the facts into a story. From the dawn of man, our brains have become hardwired to place facts in context, and a story helps get us that context in…