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Podcast: ABA Banking Journal Podcast
Episode: A bank CEO's front-seat view of risk, survival and recovery
Description: Brent Beardall thinks bankers need to be more comfortable with risk. "We're not out there taking crazy risk, but my point is don't be afraid to fail," says the president and CEO of WaFd Bank, based in tech-focused Seattle. "If you're going to fail: fail quickly, fail small. That's the two requirements I have, because if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough." In the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast — sponsored by Alkami — Beardall discusses technology experiments that didn't work, and those that did. He discusses the bank's tech lab subsidiary Archway Software and it...