WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Trine University team was one of five advancing to the finals
this week in the 2024 CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition, emerging from a
second round of 11 teams.
The Trine team is comprised of Katie Haase, a management major from Napoleon, Ohio;
Evan Selby, a sport management major from Granger, Indiana; Jackson Clark, an accounting
major from Fort Mill, South Carolina; and Beau Binnie, a finance major from Stouffville,
Ontario, Canada.
“Katie, Evan, Beau and Jackson are great students. We’re all very proud of the success
they have enjoyed and excited that they have advanced to the finals,” said Linda Conley,
faculty advisor. “This is the second year in a row a Trine team has advanced to the
top five in this competition, thanks to the dedication and talent of our students
and the support of our sponsor. We especially want to thank our sponsor, Joe Urbanski,
president of Farmers State Bank, for all his assistance.”
This is the tenth year of the competition, which is open to undergraduate students
in all fields of study as an opportunity to gain valuable first-hand knowledge of
the banking industry.
This year, the teams partnered with local community banks to determine lessons learned
from the Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank closures, identify
the banks’ expectations for regulatory and supervisory changes, and evaluate how the
banks are using social media.
Trine’s team partnered with Farmers State Bank, headquartered in LaGrange, Indiana.
A total of 27 student teams representing 21 colleges and universities entered the
competition this year. In addition to Trine, the finalists were Commonwealth University
of Pennsylvania, Southeastern Louisiana University, The University of Illinois-Springfield
and University of Southern Mississippi.
The top three teams will be announced on June 25.
Each student member and faculty advisor of the first-place winning team will receive
a $1,000 scholarship and present their findings at the Community Banking Research
Conference in St. Louis in early October. Their work will be published in the annual
CSBS Journal of Community Bank Case Studies. The second and third ranked teams also
will receive scholarships and have their works published in the journal.
To learn more, visit www.csbs.org/bankcasestudy.
Top: A Trine University team made up of, from left, Katie Haase, a management major from
Napoleon, Ohio; Evan Selby, a sport management major from Granger, Indiana; Jackson
Clark, an accounting major from Fort Mill, South Carolina; and Beau Binnie, a finance
major from Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, has advanced to the final round of the 2024
CSBS Community Bank Case Study Competition.
