Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2021

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Much like the General Store fell victim to the supermarket and the lumber yard fell victim to Home Depot, I predicted the community bank that did not pick targeted customer niches or develop product expertise will meet it's doom.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

ALM | 4 minute read Key Takeaways Many financial institutions view asset/liability management as a "check-the-box" regulatory exercise. An extreme focus on using ALM to manage the risk of rising rates means some FIs overlook using ALM to grow earnings and capital, putting them at risk of underperformance. ALM seen as checking the box.

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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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Independent Banker

APRIL 30, 2022

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Philadelphia.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

includes (from left): Christina Johantgen (head of marketing and creative), Joe York (head of product), Kelsey Cahill (summer associate), Jackie Charron (chief operating officer and executive vice president), Debbie Morin (chief financial officer), and CEO Charley Cummings. The team at Walden Mutual, a planned de novo in Concord, N.H.,

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Community bankers are largely positive about the future, based on the first results of a new index gauging business sentiment among the financial professionals who serve a critical role in local economies. These insights have the potential to inform the market and policy makers on the overall health of the economy, opportunities, and risk.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Community financial institution (FI) Cross River Bank is acquiring Seed , a small business (SMB) digital banking company, reports in Reuters said on Monday (June 24). Its takeover of Seed strengthens its position in the small business FinTech market. Its takeover of Seed strengthens its position in the small business FinTech market.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You might also like this webinar, "How to manage a high-performing construction loan portfolio." More construction loan monitoring ultimately decreases loan default, according to a new FDIC Center for Financial Research working paper. Bank monitoring in construction lending.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 30, 2023

How should community banks target and compare their ROE to the industry and their peer group, and what defines a top-performing bank? Bank ROE Historical Performance Total assets for all FDIC-insured institutions was $23.7T Community banks (assets under $10B) composed 14.3% Community banks (assets under $10B) composed 14.3%

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. A different kind of peer-to-peer payment service is now available, “built by community banks for community banks.”.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 30, 2024

trillion in domestic deposits, according to the FDIC's Statistics at a Glance. Money market total financial assets, according to the St. But money market mutual funds seemed to be the benefactor of the switch. Of note there were 11% more CD accounts and 8% more retail money market deposit accounts. What happened?

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 31, 2021

The OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve Board have issued a guide that is intended to assist community banks in conducting due diligence when considering relationships with financial technology (fintech) companies (Guide). Financial condition and competitive market environment and client base. Legal and regulatory compliance.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Add FDIC Chairman Martin J. The FDIC said that the percentage of loans and securities with maturities of three or more years hit the highest percentage in the 18 years of data records, rising to 34.6 Community banks have grown their share of longer-term assets even more quickly than the rest of the industry, according to the FDIC.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Academy Bank COO Tom Kientz notes that the community bank was eager to expand its deposit and loan services. Looking for an avenue to increase its deposit base, Academy Bank tapped into a market it hadn’t explored before: homeowners associations. Today, the community bank has successful relationships with HOAs across the country.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio.

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Abrigo

MARCH 2, 2023

Banking technology decisions now affect future growth With the possibility of a recession, community financial institutions may consider a delay or cut in technology spending. But a community financial institution often has different needs related to origination than those of a giant lender. Experts say that would be a mistake.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2017

Commercial real estate lending continues to receive regulatory scrutiny and reminders for financial institutions to practice solid risk management. FDIC officials in March outlined several types of weaknesses in loan underwriting, administration and oversight practices that are emerging at some banks with CRE portfolios.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Takeaway 3 Community banks have seen less volatility in noninterest income, and many are still eyeing growth across the category. Noninterest income associated with the housing markets such as securitization, trading, and real estate slowed significantly during the financial crisis and beyond. Community banks target growth.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Heated competition for bank funding is an increasingly important focus for community bank leaders, according to an annual survey released today by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. The post Survey Finds Cost of Funds Top of Mind for Community Bankers appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Takeaway 2 Management reports, probability of default, and model validation topics were found in the top blogs for risk professionals. Takeaway 3 Updates on interest rate forecasting and best practices for managing CRE risk were among the most-read blogs. The FASB’s description of proposed changes can be found here.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 2, 2021

2/ @Schornack The primary asset of the organization was Flagship Bank Minnesota, a Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender with two locations in the Twin Cities Metro Area. However, it had a great group of employees and was in a market that I knew very well. This was the start of one fun journey that continues today. million in 2020.

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Abrigo

MARCH 17, 2022

Takeaway 2 The severely adverse scenario from regulators presents a very severe global recession combined with severe stress in the CRE market and the corporate debt market. Prudent stress testing as a risk management tool helps the enterprise see where the potential pitfalls are in their plans.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Observing the gap in pandemic relief in south Florida due to a lack of local community banks, a trio of banking veterans teamed up to form a digital-first community bank—and were granted a charter in record time to support local businesses. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert. Name: Locality Bank. Assets: $55 million. Built on a solid foundation.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

Thankfully for bank and credit union executives, lenders, risk managers, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officers, banking podcasts and podcasts for credit unions are plentiful, and options are growing. Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite the painful evolution in retail, many experts expect another year of growth for commercial real estate – and for commercial real estate lenders, including community financial institutions. Community financial institution lenders, however, will want to “pick their spots” for CRE loans this year. Real Estate Market Outlook.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2022

Based on the futures market, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise the Fed Funds rate to 3.00% at its December 2022 meeting. In this article, we analyze the industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF) and track how community banks’ COF behaves relative to larger banks. Historical Cost of Funds Analysis. Future Short-term Rates.

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Abrigo

JUNE 11, 2021

Would you like other articles on asset/liability management in your inbox? Takeaway 1 Regulators stress sound risk management practices that include the ability to identify and measure interest rate risk (IRR). FDIC) noted in its 2021 Risk Review.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Although one might argue that First Citizens BancShares of Raleigh is a SIFI as it climbed to the 19th largest in the country with its Silicon Valley Bridge Bank acquisition from the FDIC, and that the FDIC designated SVB as systemically important. Communities First Financial Corporation (Now FFB Bancorp) (OTCQX: FFBB) #2.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 3, 2015

The ABA’s 2015 Survey of Bank Compliance Officers , conducted February through March 2015, had participation from more than 450 financial institutions, with almost 80 percent being community banks. ABA president and CEO, Frank Keating, commented that Dodd-Frank has impacted banks, their customers and the communities they serve.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 9, 2017

Avert Risk The OCC’s October 2012 Supervisory Guidance notes that financial institutions that perform stress testing “have the ability to minimize the impact of negative market developments more effectively” than those that do not have a stress testing process in place.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

percent interest rate, while money market accounts return an average 0.21 In addition, Wealthfront works with FDIC-insured partner banks — including East West Bank , New York Community Bank and others — to hold customers’ deposits. It now manages $13.5

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Looking to mergers and acquisitions, institutions can expand into new areas of business or geographic markets. In 2008, there were 7,061 FDIC-insured commercial banks in the U.S. For many community and regional banks looking to compete with larger financial institutions and grow their bank, the answer has been mergers and acquisitions.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

To you, manage your interest rate risk. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate?

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The current market volatility has been with us for nearly three years. This has kept investment options for community financial institutions at historic lows. Market volatility and prolonged low bond yields is keeping investors on the sidelines. Community FIs are experiencing similar activity from their Main Street customers.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Portfolio segments should be monitored and managed, not get buried in exception counts. This is particularly true of credit exceptions related to account management (e.g., As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked. It just stays on forever.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2017

The Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group representing about 6,000 small banks holding almost $5T in assets, is lining up against SoFi, urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reject its application to launch a banking unit.

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