# Brian Love

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Winning the War for Talent: Why Compensation Strategy Matters More Than Ever

Community banks are rethinking compensation as competition for top producers intensifies. In this episode of Travillian Next, Brian Love of Travillian and incentive strategist Mike Higgins discuss how banks are moving beyond subjective year-end bonus structures and toward performance-driven incenti…

Balance Sheet Truths from Piper Sandler's Scott Hildenbrand, The Hardest Working Man in "Bank Land"

Scott Hildenbrand, Head of Depository Fixed Income at Piper Sandler, joins Travillian Next for a conversation on balance sheet strategy and the forces shaping banking in 2026. In this episode, Travillian’s Brian Love and Andrew Liesch sit down with Hildenbrand to discuss what he’s hearing in bank b…

Travillian’s Conference Crawl: What Amber & Brian Heard at Finovate, D.A. Davidson, Alloy Labs, and S&P Global

Travillian's bank & fintech recap from May 2026: Amber Buker, Chief Research Officer, and Brian Love, Head of Banking & Fintech Search, recap the month's biggest banking and fintech conferences (Finovate, D.A. Davidson, S&P Global, and Alloy Labs in Nashville). The honest, occasionally goofy conver…

Brent Beardall & Simone Lagomarsino: Two Bank CEOs on Leadership, M&A, and the Deal That Made Them Family

Brent Beardall, President and CEO of WaFd, Inc., joins Brian Love to tell the story of his rise from a bank file room to the CEO seat. Partway through, he gets surprised on camera by Simone Lagomarsino, the former CEO of Luther Burbank Savings, the bank WaFd acquired. The two cover leadership, the …

BNC Closing Credits: Always Be Closing with “Glengarry Glen Ross”

In this latest episode of Bank Nerd Corner's Closing Credits, Kiah and Catherine welcome in Brian Love, Head of Banking and Fintech Search at Travillian Group, to discuss the 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross.” The film follows a group of real estate salesmen over roughly 24 hours as they compete for…

Playing the Hits! A Roundtable Discussion with Bridgewater Bank’s Joe Chybowski, AllianceBernstein’s Michael Howard, and Performance Trust’s Matt Shields

Capital is flowing again for community banks but deploying it well is the hard part. Bridgewater Bank's Joe Chybowski, AllianceBernstein's Michael Howard, and Performance Trust's Matt Shields join Travillian's Brian Love for a roundtable on capital structure, what investors reward, bank M&A, deposi…

"Margin Is Just a Statistic — Net Interest Income Pays the Bills": Chris Marinac, Director of Research at Brean Capital, on Earnings Season

Chris Marinac, Director of Research at Brean Capital, breaks down Q2 2026 bank earnings with Brian Love of Travillian. Why margin is just a statistic, why deposits still win, where M&A goes next, and how banks are rebuilding their talent pipeline.

Your Deposits Have Commitment Issues: The Economy's Humming, So Why Is Money Walking Out the Door?

Your deposits aren't as loyal as they used to be. Nationwide's Mark Hackett and Wolf & Company's Jeff Marsico explain why money is on the move, even in a strong economy, and what community banks should do about it.The economy looks good: consumers are spending, the stock market is healthy, and the …

Travillian at The 2026 Deposit Conference: Brian Love Talks Talent, Deposits & Storytelling

This week, Travillian headed to Chicago for The 2026 Deposit Conference, and our usual host found himself on the other side of the mic. Between leading a panel on the rise of the Chief Deposit Officer and catching up with industry leaders, Brian Love, our Head of Banking & Fintech, slipped backstag…

Breaking $10 Billion: Mid Penn Bank's CEO, Rory Ritrievi, and Stephens' Frank Sorrentino on Bank M&A, Liquidity & Talent

Mid Penn Bank CEO Rory Ritrievi and Stephens' Frank Sorrentino join Travillian's Brian Love to talk bank M&A, liquidity and talent. Rory shares how Mid Penn grew from $550 million to more than $7 billion, how he keeps culture intact through acquisitions and why the bank is pausing M&A to prove its …