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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

In the late 90s, low interest rates made speculative equity investments more attractive than bonds, and at the same time, innovative internet companies grew in popularity among retail investors, professional traders, venture capitalists, and the like (familiar?). Remember K Bank in Maryland? We took a serious reputational hit.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

3-yr average pre-tax ROA. pre-tax ROA: 3.08%. pre-tax ROA: 2.83%. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. 3-yr average pre-tax ROA. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. Molly Bennett, executive editor, Independent Banker. Less than $300 million.