Perficient

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The announcement of significant amendments to the DFS500 regulations on December 1, 2023, represents a pivotal moment for entities operating within New York’s financial sector. Embracing these changes enables entities to fortify their operations, safeguard stakeholders, and instill trust within the broader financial community.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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Perficient

JULY 27, 2023

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is a federal law in the US that promotes the interest of financial service firms to serve their communities’ credit needs, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. CRA remains essential today because many businesses are struggling to operate post-pandemic and have shut down.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 11, 2023

We looked at 12 other variables for community banks (asset size $100mm to $10Bn) and measured the correlation between those variables and ROA over the past five years. This analysis is not a causation study, and many reasons may explain for this correlation. The table below contains our output. Conclusion. The post What drives ROA?

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Community Bank Community Analysis Industry 195

South State Correspondent

APRIL 15, 2024

We feel that as community bankers, we can learn from Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPM) and from Warren Buffet’s annual shareholder letters. As usual, it was full of insight that every community banker should consider. Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Small business credit analysis company PayNet is linking up with a community bank to streamline SMB lending for the institution. ” Analysis has also found that community banks are playing a larger role in small business lending. “Now, small businesses are stepping in to get a piece of the pie.”

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage.

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Abrigo

MAY 22, 2024

Small business lending is also a prominent line of business for many financial institutions, especially those driven by a mission to help their communities thrive. At the same time, 59% pursued credit to meet operating expenses. Dynamic market Small business lending by banks & credit unions Small businesses are a pillar of the U.S.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Small business lending is also a prominent line of business for many financial institutions, especially those driven by a mission to help their communities thrive. At the same time, 59% pursued credit to meet operating expenses. Dynamic market Small business lending by banks & credit unions Small businesses are a pillar of the U.S.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 9, 2014

This article is the second in a two-part series on top concerns and growth strategies of community banks. • Improper global cash flow analysis. To properly asses the credit risk of that entity, the bank must perform a global analysis. • Inadequate strategic planning. Source: 2014 Growth Strategy Survey.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

million is somehow benefiting one of the other three stakeholders: employees, customers, or communities. It wouldn't be benefiting customers in terms of fees or interest rates, as the analysis above shows. I don't have the data or CU by CU analysis to make a definitive BS call, but let's say I'm skeptical. And the $11.8

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In a previous article ( HERE ), we discussed the concept of Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP), why systemically important banks and large regional banks incorporate FTP, and why community banks should also consider implementing FTP. Community banks can then better measure the economic value obtained from each action taken separately.

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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Community bankers are embracing innovation like never before—with impressive results. But with so much emphasis placed on customer-facing products and technologies, innovating back-office operations can fall to the bottom of the priority list. Unbundle your end-to-end operations and conduct a SWOT analysis.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If we did, would we continue to offer Analysis Checking or some variation of it? Because of Reg Q, in place for over 80 years, banks created Business Analysis Checking, where a business earns credits to offset fees based on their balances. See a Union Bank of Richmond, VA description of a typical Business Analysis Checking account.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

However, many traditional community lenders will face real challenges meeting their lending goals for more business loans and higher yield, given expected interest rate hikes, higher non-interest expenses, and increasing competition for borrowers. It is the backbone of what many community financial institutions do, and they do it well.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 21, 2022

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 6, 2022

However, closer analysis and lessons from history demonstrate that to counteract inflation’s free cash flow-destroying effects, revenue must grow substantially higher than the inflation rate. Sensitivity Analysis. A sensitivity analysis tests assumptions for lenders to use to assess a project’s ability to service debt.

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Perficient

JUNE 5, 2020

This includes static application structure, dynamic application behavior, third-party component patch/version levels, and overall deployment environment compliance with hardened operating systems. Source Code Analysis. Dynamic Application Analysis. Operational Security. SonarQube Security Scan Result. Secrets Management.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Over time FTP was further advanced to allow management to measure and manage credit, interest rate, liquidity, and operational risk across business units. However, over the years, there has been considerable debate at community banks on how to implement the principles of FTP to various balance sheet accounts like loans and deposits.

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Community Bank Community Examples Management 195

South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. Community banks can now white label this same product to onboard and process employee retention tax credits for the bank’s small business customers AND prospects.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2024

By partnering with community leaders, state and federal agencies, local commissions, and commercial customers, banks can be an effective conduit to leverage this public capital better while making sure the funds are fully utilized effectively in the communities we serve. Partnership with aligned community groups will be critical here.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Working hand in hand with digital transformation, data provides a powerful tool for community banks. Its accessibility, readability and applicability in today’s digital-first environment has enhanced community banks’ ability to serve their customers, creating a heightened experience.

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Data How To Community Bank Community 133

South State Correspondent

JANUARY 3, 2023

The graph and the analysis demonstrate that no relationship exists between a bank’s NIM and performance as measured by return on assets (ROA). The most common rebuttal by community bankers to using a RAROC loan pricing model is that small banks are price takers and need to price to market to win loans.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Fortunately, community banks have greater access than ever before to advanced solutions and technologies to meet those needs. As small business operators and innovators themselves, community bankers have the gumption and vision to deliver the high-tech, high-touch services their customers want, and need, to succeed.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 26, 2015

A Pennsylvania community bank’s perspective on the rewards and potential perils of developing a separate business line. Forming new business lines—if carefully planned and considered—can be a potentially significant way for a community bank to boost revenues and profits. which had long-established ties to the local community.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In a survey of community banks and credit unions at the 2016 Sageworks Risk Management Summit, 42 percent of respondents said Commercial Real Estate, or CRE, lending was their primary focus for loan portfolio growth. This reflects a larger industry trend. For many, commercial real estate lending may be the ticket.

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Community Bank Handbook Lending Risk Management 150

Abrigo

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Strategies to lessen the impact of CECL on smaller community banks. Cost-benefit analysis: What is the FASB’s process, and how much of that information is public? Some CECL critics have called upon FASB to undertake a cost-benefit analysis of CECL to address and better understand the financial implications of the standard.

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Community Bank Community Lending Analysis 150

South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The loan leverage ratio is 10.83 (total debt divided by net operating income (NOI)). As typical for senior debt analysis, the higher the loan leverage, the harder it is for borrowers to absorb rate hikes and revenue shocks. This loan was underwritten to 1.20X debt service coverage ratio (DSCR), 76% loan-to-value (LTV), 9.2%

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NCR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Community banks are an integral part of the US banking system. In the US, a community bank is typically defined as one with assets of less than $1 billion – and for many people a local credit union or community bank is often the first choice when opting for a financial services provider. Why does all this matter?

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Zycus Vice President of Corporate Development Richard Waugh said in the announcement, “We saw a perfect fit for our AI expertise in the technologically challenged accounts payable operations and created independent AP bots for multiple use cases in the invoice-to-pay cycle.”

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The value driver in cash management is that it is usually some sort of operating account at the bank. As such, operating accounts have low-interest rate sensitivity. We have also included the IBIS World 2024 risk ratings to provide some context for the credit and operating risk of the counterparty.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” That same adjustment can be applied to banks’ fixed-rate loans for economic value analysis to better understand value creation and allocation, prioritize future business activity, and better deploy capital. Banks had enough liquidity so it didn’t really matter in terms of day-to-day operations. Capital got scarce.

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Abrigo

MARCH 14, 2024

Strengthening customer relationships with tangible value and personal touch Customer retention in banking can be challenging for community financial institutions. However, many customers may not fully understand or appreciate the depth of analysis these reviews offer. Reduce operating cost while ensuring loan policy consistency.

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Lending Strategy Community Software 195

Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

At the same time, 59% pursued credit to meet operating expenses. Generally, small business loans benefit business owners, they also benefit communities, according to 2021 research for the SBA. Almost half sought credit to grow their businesses, and 28% applied to make repairs or replace capital assets. 1 appeared first on Abrigo.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 6, 2023

Credits will deteriorate much faster if an economic downturn stresses net operating income (NOI). We argued that community banks should favor 1.40X to 1.50X DSCR credits, as that is the minimum cash flow required to withstand a standard recession. debt yield ratio ($135k divided by $1.5mm).

Community Bank 195

Community Bank Community Lending Regional 195

South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It costs the average community bank $6k to $14k to book a new commercial loan but only about $2k to $4k to modify or amend an existing commercial loan. For example, real estate is a longer-term asset with net operating income (NOI) that is mostly insensitive to interest rate movement.

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