Washington, D.C. – Five student teams advanced to the finals this week in the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition, emerging from a second round of eleven teams. 

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 partnered with local community banks to determine lessons learned from the Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank closures, identify the banks’ expectations for regulatory and supervisory changes, and evaluate how the banks are using social media. 

A total of 27 student teams representing 21 colleges and universities entered the competition, this year. The final five teams are: 

• Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania 
• Southeastern Louisiana University 
• Trine University (Indiana) 
• The University of Illinois-Springfield 
• University of Southern Mississippi 

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. The second and third ranked teams 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, 301-996-6381, [email protected]

X: @CSBSNews 

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.