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The Community Bank Contrarian

ABA Community Banking

Whether it’s buying a mortgage division in 2009 or building a diversified product set in an age of nichification, community bank CEO Luanne Cundiff zigs when pundits say to zag. The post The Community Bank Contrarian appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

PYMNTS

The risk of closing malls, the report said, has the potential to reshape entire communities, which are debating whether abandoned malls can be turned into office space or affordable housing. on the residential component. Brookfield declined to offer a cost estimate for the project.)

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FDIC Approves Square For Banking License

PYMNTS

was formed in 2009 as a payment services provider to enable businesses to accept card payments. Some bank lobbyists and community groups were not in favor of the move because it was going after an Industrial Loan Company (ILC) bank charter. The headquarters will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Square, Inc.

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Common Misperceptions: Community Banks are Beating the Behemoths

Jeff For Banks

One such theme was the right sizing of community banks'' funding sources. Since the dawn of the financial crisis in 2007, loan demand has fallen off of the cliff, and therefore community banks did not need their historically high amount of CD funding. In 2009, that percent rose to 37%, although that is off 1% from the prior year.

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Why banks are closing so many branches

American Banker

In 2009, there were nearly 100,000 branches in the U.S. Banks have steadily winnowed their physical footprints since 2010, when digital services came to the fore. The pandemic — and social distancing — hastened the trend this decade. Today, there are fewer than 80,000.

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