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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Shadow bank lending is similar to bank lending but is not subject to the same regulations, and compensating deposit balace requirements. Depositors woke up and thought "what is my bank paying me?"

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Alibaba’s Ant Financial IPO Rumored For Late 2017

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The business’ is most closely connected to Alipay, China’s largest online payments option, while also offering wealth management services, as well as credit scoring, micro lending and insurance. Alibaba launched Alipay in 2004, and later peeled off on its on accord ten years later.

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NCUA proposed rule: MBL flexibility for credit unions?

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On June 18th, the board of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) unanimously approved five items , including a proposed rule aimed at modernizing member business lending (MBL). Small business lending at credit unions has continued to increase over the last several years. billion in 2004. billion in 2004.

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Banks and CDFIs: Partnering for community impact

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CDFIs are attractive partners to banks in part because of their long, 30-plus-year track record of managing capital, with few examples of investor losses. CDFIs use grant dollars to leverage additional debt and expand their lending activity. A bank will typically provide debt to a CDFI that is active in the bank’s CRA Assessment Area.

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India’s Struggling Yes Bank Sees Share Boost From $1.2B Offer

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Yes Bank is a private-sector bank that mainly operates as a corporate bank, but it also does asset management and retail banking. Yes Bank was founded in 2004; it grew rapidly, but was affected by more corporate defaults in the country. The deal is still awaiting approval by the bank’s shareholders and the board.

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Lessons Learned: Banks that thrived during crisis grew loans slower prior to it.

Jeff For Banks

It appears that banks that had the ability to do the same during the heady lending times of 2004 - 2007 found it to be an enduring strategy (see table from Fed study). If we learn anything from this study, it is that at least one member of senior management should be like William McChesney Martin. This makes sense to me.

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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. To you, manage your interest rate risk. percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To fight inflation, the Fed raised rates aggressively (familiar?).

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