This is Chris Carlson and Welcome to The Bolder Banking Podcast. My guests are Renate Deininger, President and CEO at Iowa Trust and Savings Bank and Mike Armstrong, Vice President Of Lending at Iowa Trust and Savings Bank.  

In 2022,The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC) established a new scholarship to recognize community banks across the nation for their innovative approaches to serving their customers and communities and helping build thriving local economies.

Iowa Trust and Savings Bank was a 2023 Bolder Banking Scholarship recipient. In this episode Renate and Mike discuss the details of Scholarship application, to include the actions their Bank took in the early days of the Covid Pandemic.