The Business Record’s first Power Breakfast of 2024 featured banking and lending leaders in a conversation moderated by Associate Editor Mike Mendenhall and Senior Staff Writer Michael Crumb. The panel addressed topics including the effects of the high interest rate environment on lending, slowing deposit rates, getting access to capital for new businesses and startups and ways to help consumers who are unbanked or underbanked.

Panelists:

• Don Coffin, president and CEO, Bankers Trust
• Vince Lintz, executive director, One Economy Financial Development Corp.
• John Sorensen, president and CEO, Iowa Bankers Association
• Murray Williams, president and CEO, Iowa Credit Union League

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