Valley National Bancorp’s new CEO Ira Robbins has helped to transform the bank in his year on the job by becoming more efficient, striking fintech partnerships and adding employee perks; Valley has looked closely at their branches and shut underperforming locations, partnered with fintechs to solve core customer pains and adjusting its focus to commercial clients with $20 million to $150 million in annual revenue; Robbins sat down with American Banker to discuss the bank’s changes and the future; the interview covered the change in internal culture, their increase in technology spend and more. Source.
