Teams will examine how banks are planning for the future

Washington, D.C. – Thirty-four student teams from 28 colleges and universities across the nation have entered the 2023 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition. Each team has partnered with a local community bank to learn how it is recruiting and retaining talent, approaching succession planning and using technology to advance its operations. 

This is the ninth year of the competition, which is open to undergraduate students in all fields of study as an opportunity to gain valuable first-hand knowledge of the banking industry. The teams will undergo three rounds of judging. A list of those who advance to the second round will be announced on May 31. The top three teams will be announced at the CSBS State Federal Supervisory Forum in Philadelphia on July 12.  

In addition to being invited to present at the annual Community Banking Research Conference, each student member and faculty advisor of the first-place winning team will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Their work will be published in the annual CSBS Journal of Community Bank Case Studies. Teams that place second and third will also receive scholarships and have their works published in the journal.  

Student teams participating in the 2023 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition attend the following universities:

• Adelphi University, New York
• Arkansas State University (Two teams)
• Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania
• Boston University
• Gannon University, Pennsylvania
• Iowa State University
• La Salle University, Pennsylvania
• Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
• Merrimack College, Massachusetts
• Messiah University, Pennsylvania
• Minnesota State University Mankato
• Mississippi State University
• Murray State University, Kentucky
• Rosemont College, Pennsylvania
• Southeastern Louisiana University (Two teams)
• The University of Tennessee at Martin
• Trine University, Indiana
• University of Arkansas
• University of Guam
• University of Illinois at Springfield (Two teams)
• University of Maryland
• University of Mississippi
• University of Missouri Kansas City (Three teams)
• University of North Carolina Charlotte
• University of Northern Iowa (Two teams)
• University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• University of Southern Mississippi
• Western Michigan University

Learn more at www.csbs.org/bankcasestudy.  

Contact: Susanna Barnett, 202-407-7156, [email protected]  

Twitter: @CSBSNews 

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) is the national organization of bank regulators from all 50 states, American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. State regulators supervise roughly three-quarters of all U.S. banks and a variety of non-depository financial services. CSBS, on behalf of state regulators, also operates the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System to license and register non-depository financial service providers in the mortgage, money services businesses, consumer finance and debt industries.