Remove 2006 Remove Community Bank Remove Risk Management Remove Taxes
article thumbnail

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

Jeff For Banks

Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth.

Lending 60
article thumbnail

Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

After easing and keeping rates low for three years, the Fed began tightening from June, 2004 to June, 2006. This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. The economy has grown 2.2%

article thumbnail

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.

FDIC 78