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Fee Income In Lending Is Crucial For Banks

South State Correspondent

Historically, community banks have relied on net interest margin (NIM) instead of fee income to drive return on equity (ROE). For example, 40% of JP Morgan’s commercial banking revenue is derived from fee income, and JP Morgan’s commercial banking division is composed of middle-market and commercial real estate (CRE) lending.

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What Term Lending Index Should Banks Adopt?

South State Correspondent

However, some community banks are still deciding on the correct term lending index to adopt. We believe that having more options for community banks is beneficial. Community banks have used overnight indices such as Fed Funds and Prime for decades, and those are not going away. Robustness/Volume. Representative.

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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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Optimizing Loan Duration

South State Correspondent

Customers and competitors are challenging community banks to extend loan duration – borrowers are eager to lock fixed rates before they rise further, and many competitors are happy to oblige. But what are the optimal fixed terms for community banks given today’s interest rate, credit, and liquidity environment? The Lending Curve.

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Community banks trade group asks Trump Administration to curb fair lending enforcement

CFPB Monitor

The Independent Community Bankers of America issued a statement calling on the Trump administration “to rein in the overzealous application of fair lending laws.” Requiring community banks to expand their market presence into neighboring counties would force them to alter their model and sound business practices.”

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Higher Rates – Faster for Longer

South State Correspondent

This rapid change in interest rates requires careful planning, product selection, and new lending and deposit-gathering strategies. Speed and Magnitude of Past Rate Hikes in Comparison. Application to Community Banks. A second significant risk for community banks is repricing risk. Higher Rates Due To A Suprised Fed.

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7 Reasons To Focus More on Hedge Fee Income

South State Correspondent

Many community banks are searching for ways to increase fee income, and many bank CEOs have concluded that fee income is a significant driver of revenue and profitability. We argue that larger banks do not have an inherent advantage over community banks in generating fee income because of their scale.