South State Correspondent
JANUARY 10, 2024
Community banks’ use of swaps (banks’ primary tool to hedge interest rate risk on loans) has increased substantially over the last ten years. The market expects the current inverted yield curve to remain through much of 2024 (based on long-term interest rates and the expected rate cuts in 2024).
South State Correspondent
APRIL 30, 2024
An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.
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South State Correspondent
APRIL 30, 2024
An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.
South State Correspondent
JANUARY 16, 2024
Bloomberg recently announced that it will shut down its BSBY index on November 15, 2024. We published various articles comparing community bank alternatives to LIBOR (such as SOFR, Ameribor, Fed Funds, and Prime). Historically, community banks have hesitated to adopt derivatives for several reasons.
South State Correspondent
MAY 18, 2022
In two recent articles, we reviewed the banking industry’s deposit behavior with regard to cost of funding earning assets (COF) ( HERE ), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle ( HERE ). A graph for SouthState Bank appears below.
Jeff For Banks
MARCH 21, 2024
Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters.
South State Correspondent
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.”
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