# 2026 Banking Outlook with Anton Schutz Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz.md Podcast: [The Community Bank Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384) Published: 2025-12-22T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://communitybanker.libsyn.com/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/communitybanker/Anton2025_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=2059838 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384/episodes/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz Duration seconds: 1794 ## Resource Today we sit down with Anton Schutz, President and Founder of Mendon Capital. As an investor, he has a unique perspective on trends shaping community banks. We discuss what surprised him in 2025 within the banking landscape, M&A, credit outlooks, and other topics you should be paying attention to as we near 2026. The views, information, or opinions expressed during this show are solely those of the participants involved and do not necessarily represent those of SouthState Bank and its employees. SouthState Bank, N.A. - Member FDIC ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384/episodes/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-community-bank-podcast-1245384/2026-banking-outlook-with-anton-schutz.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.