Online Bank Management Contest 2019
The Robbins Banking Institute hosted the final phase of an Online Bank Management Contest (OBMC), which involved a bank simulation program, on the FHSU campus on September 26, 2019. Thirteen teams of bankers from as far as Kansas City participated in the contest throughout the summer in the first phase of the competition. The top four teams at the end of phase 1 continued to phase 2 and then completed the fourth quarter of the bank simulation at the final phase at FHSU and they also gave a presentation to a panel of judges. The developer of the OBMC simulation, Ziegfried Vermaak, CEO of SimArch, was the moderator for the day's events and the judges for the presentations were Ziegfried Vermaak; Alan Deines, Director of the Robbins Banking Institute; Mark McCullick, Market President at Emprise Bank in Hays; Mark Schepers, President and CEO of The Community Bank in Liberal; and Randy Walker, CEO of the Bank of Hays in Hays.
These top four teams (with team members) were from Bank of the Prairie in Olathe (Debra Harrison, Michael Kassa, Caleb Lawton, and Shannon Powers), Country Club Bank in Kansas City MO (Rachael Ausmus, Kelley Frye, Dustin Matthew, and Jessica Schafer), Farmers Bank and Trust in Overland Park (Clark Eschliman, Brett Ferrell, Darren Friendt, and Jacinda Zerr), and First Kansas Bank located in Hoisington, Great Bend, Hays, and Claflin (Jack Dennis, Jay Luerman, Traci Schneider, and Eric Schoendaler). Country Club Bank was declared the winner and presented with the winner’s trophy at the end of the day.
The Robbins Banking Institute would like to recognize W.R. Robbins, CEO and Corporate President of Farmers Bank and Trust, for providing an introduction for the start of the competition and for his continued support of the Robbins Banking Institute and its initiatives. Sponsors for the event included the Kansas Bankers Association in Topeka, Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, Bankers Bank of Kansas in Wichita, and Career 1 Source in Hesston.
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