A Swiss Banker in Indiana Farm Country: How a Farm Boy Grew Up to Lead One of America's Most Efficient Banks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542389754)

In early 2009, as America's largest banks were failing amid the national housing crisis, journalists came to a small town in Indiana Amish country to find out how the First Bank of Berne managed to have its best year ever. The answer, bank president Charles Isch told them, had to do with both the bank's and the town's Swiss heritage. But this was not your typical "Swiss bank." Its Anabaptist founders had no banking expertise when they came to America; persecuted in their home country, they had not even been allowed to own land. Frugal, conservative and averse to risk, this new breed of Swiss bankers learned to run a thrifty operation that trusted its own cash reserves more than government assistance. This is the story of what Isch - who grew up on a Swiss Anabaptist farm, using an outhouse as a child - learned about banking and his own heritage in 46 years at one of the nation's most efficient banks.

Author: Tanya Isch Caylor
ISBN-10: 1542389755
ISBN-13: 9781542389754
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2017
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.38d