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FDIC: Community banks outperform industry in third quarter

Abrigo

To provide a report card on industry status and performance, the FDIC publishes a Quarterly Banking Profile. Another bright spot: less than seven percent of community banks were unprofitable – the lowest since the second quarter of 2006. They performed better than a year ago and also outperformed the industry as a whole.

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US Banks Expected To Lose 200K Jobs To Technology

PYMNTS

In the next 10 years, as robots and other tech bring about the “greatest transfer from labour to capital” the industry has witnessed, per a report by Wells Fargo analysts, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) data, however, shows that the industry’s overall headcount has shrunk only 16 times as of 1935.

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Report: US Banks Will Cut Jobs As Robots, Tech Bring About Change

PYMNTS

In the next 10 years, as robots and other tech bring about the “greatest transfer from labour to capital” the industry has witnessed, per a report by Wells Fargo analysts, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) data, however, shows that the industry’s overall headcount has shrunk only 16 times as of 1935.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

Leading up the recession and these significant losses, CRE grew in a regulatory environment that “permitted lower capital requirements and did not impose lending caps, merely supervisory limits”. These caps were 100% of capital for construction loans, and 300% for all investor CRE. Residential construction - 85% 5.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Before this year, the last time that happened was in 2006, when Walmart made a move on an ILC.

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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

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” Between 1941 and 1979, an average of 5.3 banks failed a year. There was an average of 4.3 between 2015 and 2022.

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In Pursuit of Return on Equity

Jeff For Banks

It was in the aftermath that capital, the denominator in the return on equity calculation, resumed its place as king. They thinned their capital leaving them more susceptible to distress during economic hard times. I searched all publicly traded banks and thrifts that existed in 2006 and sorted them by the highest ROE.

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