Track 2: Customer engagement/Profitable financing: Diversification — Commercial real estate (CRE) and commercial and industrial (C&I) loans as drivers of growth?

Growing the small business lending portfolio (outside of PPP) has been a challenge for more than a decade and the obstacles and pitfalls are not the same for every lender.  This session will provide perspectives on finding in balance in both Commercial Real Estate Lending and C&I Lending.  Can you excel at both?  What is important to growing a C&I portfolio that is different from CRE?  How do rising rates and today's economy factor into different types of lending?  Why credit policy matters in your diversification strategy.