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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

Outside of those two crisis periods, American banking failures have generally been uncommon, at least since the end of the Great Depression. banks failed a year. bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Before SVB, Signature, and First Republic, in fact, it had been over two years since the last bank failure.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. Maybe sub out an economist or two.

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Five Challenges to Your Bank of the Future and Ideas to Overcome Them

Jeff For Banks

In 2006, when the median asset size within my firm's profitability outsourcing service was $696 million, the operating cost per business checking account was $586 per year. For example, deposit operations' expense as a percent of deposits should decline as the bank grows. Community bankers know the town mayor, and key business leaders.