Washington, D.C. – Eleven teams have advanced in the first round of judging of the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition.

The teams were chosen from a pool of 27 student teams that represent 21 colleges and universities across the nation. This is the tenth 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. 

This year, the teams have partnered with local community banks to learn about the closures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank, identify the case study bank’s expectations for regulatory and supervisory change, and how they use social media in their daily operations. The teams advancing to the second round are from the following universities:

• Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania
• James Madison University (Virginia) – Team 1
• James Madison University (Virginia) – Team 2
• Southeastern Louisiana University
• Trine University (Indiana)
• University of Guam
• University of Illinois at Springfield
• University of Maryland – Team 2
• University of Northern Iowa – Team 2
• University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Tennessee at Martin

Results from the second round of judging will be announced on June 4. The top three teams will be announced on June 25.

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

Learn more at www.csbs.org/bankcasestudy.

Contacts: 

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

Delonda Scott, 202-559-4749, [email protected]

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The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) is the national organization of financial 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.