The voice of Houston's banking community
Editorial
In-depth profiles, institutional histories, and analysis of Houston's banking community.
The shale boom rewrote the economics of oil and gas. Houston's bank CEOs had to rewrite their playbooks to match — and some were faster than others.
Behind every major Houston bank is a chief lending officer who knows every boardroom in town. How relationship banking built — and sustains — the city's financial power.
They rarely make headlines, but chief credit officers hold the keys to billions in lending decisions. Inside the discipline that keeps Houston's banks standing.
How one visionary banker transformed the bayou city's financial landscape and set the stage for Houston's emergence as a global energy capital.
Four faces. Forty years. The men who built the financial foundation of the Energy Capital of the World.