The Camp Exposure Connection
Tyler Patmon, John Steinmetz, Lubbock Smith, III and Jeremiah Hatch PUBLISHED JULY 15, 2021 AT 3:54PM. DALLAS DOING GOODSTORY BY JAN OSBORN Some encounters happen by circumstance, and others are intentional, but when Lubbock Smith, III met John D. Steinmetz, it was considered lucky. It was a Saturday morning and both men had decided to slip away […]
Football Camp Hopes Its Expansion Will Help Its Exposure
NBC 5’s Vince Sims talks to Camp Exposure founder, Lubbock Smith III and Vista Bank President, CEO and co-founder of Camp Exposure, John Steinmetz in today’s Community Conversation: A Call for Change. Click here to read the full article.
‘Quick, tangible, teachable moments’: Financial literacy could be the ticket to Gen Z appeal
Featured in: Tearsheet.coRIVKA ABRAMSON | JULY 16, 2021 Dallas-based Vista Bank, which has 15 locations throughout Texas, participates in and donates to local events surrounding financial literacy. It also launched a campaign earlier this year where every Friday it shares a piece of financial advice on social media. The bank also plans to leverage technology more when it reaches […]
Will the latest COVID spike impact the economy in the fall? North Texas CEOs make predictions
Photo Credit: Jake Dean/Dallas Business JournalFormer First Choice Emergency Room location now used as COVID 19 testing location in Highland Village. Featured in: WFAAOriginal Author: Dallas Business JournalPublished: 5:00 PM CDT August 15, 2021Updated: 5:00 PM CDT August 15, 2021 Just as North Texas seemed to be heading into a post-COVID world, the Delta variant and high levels […]
Fintechs help local institutions compete in ever-crowded digital banking space
By Catherine Leffert – Staff Writer, Dallas Business JournalJul 19, 2021, 7:54pm EDT As the COVID-19 pandemic pressured financial institutions to hit the gas on advancing technological capabilities, smaller local banks enlisted third-party and financial technology companies to penetrate the digital market. Local bank leaders said the relationship between traditional financial institutions and fintechs pushes their companies forward. […]
Vista Bank and SMU Athletics Launch The #Makeyourmove Contest To Recognize And Empower One Local Business
By Texas Metro News Published 7 days ago Dallas, Texas – John D. Steinmetz, President and CEO of Dallas-based Vista Bank, recently announced the #MakeYourMove contest, which will award one company in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex with free advertising to SMU fans as well as small business coaching from the team at Vista Bank. The endeavor, created through Vista Bank’s […]
Vista Bank Appoints Mahomes EVP, General Counsel
By Texas Metro News Vista Bank and its parent company Vista Bancshares today announced the appointment of Bill Mahomes to Executive Vice President and General Counsel, effective immediately. Mr. Mahomes will report to Chief of Staff and Director of Corporate Development, Jared Craighead. As General Counsel, Mahomes will oversee all legal and contractual operations and matters […]
Vista Bank, Pandemic Response
Community Banks – The Amazon Prime of the CARES Act While big banks operate like tankers, community banks are the speedboats that take highly-committed highly-trained special forces to handle special ops missions. 2020 became ground zero for commercial community banks like Vista. After ensuring the health and well-being of our team and families, we focused […]
Remote work is here to stay. Banks are still sorting out how to adapt.
Author Joel Berg Vista Bank in Dallas had no employees working from home before COVID-19 hit. But the pandemic demonstrated that the arrangements could work and that employees valued them, said Auden Herrera, chief operations officer for the $1.3 billion-asset bank. So, in fall 2020, Vista executives began discussing which groups of employees could serve as […]
Get to know the Most Admired CEOs in North Texas
2019 class of the Dallas Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs. JAKE DEAN By Rob Schneider – Managing Editor – Events, Dallas Business Journal Sep 25, 2019, 11:40pm EDT On Wednesday, the Dallas Business Journal honored its newest class from its Most Admired CEOs Awards. These 18 CEOs, who work in a range of industries from architecture to finance, manufacturing, […]
