Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Hundreds of bankers gathered in Honolulu earlier this month for the Independent Community Bankers of America conference, trying to reconcile their sense that the economy is back on track with their concerns about costly regulations and unfair competition. The following is an overview of the conflicting messages they shared and heard.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Asset growth is still the name of the game—here are the best in the bank channel.

Regulatory, recruiting and retirement issues dominated the agenda at the annual BISA conference. Here are some of the smartest things we heard from economists, executives and other industry leaders during the well-attended three-day event.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Here's a new look at our top bank advisors based on their ratios of trailing-12 production per assets-under-management.

Branches are vital to attracting new customers and cross-selling to existing ones, but they're also expensive. Some banks continue to add branches, but most institutions are focused on pruning their networks to cut costs.

We've ranked the top advisors in the bank channel based on trailing-12 production. See who comes out on top.

Here's a sampling of bank advisors who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

There are several measures of success in this industry, but gathering assets is always a major consideration. Here we show the top 25 bank advisors by assets under management.