Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. 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.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

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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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In the chart below, derived from The Kafafian Group’s (TKG) peer database of hundreds of community bank branches, we see that the revenue generated from deposit spreads, asset spreads (typically consumer loans), and fees (typically deposit fees) as a percent of branch deposits averaged 2.08% for commercial banks and 1.88% for thrifts during 2014.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2018

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%

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Our house is 2,000 square feet and its value is slightly greater than the average in our community. Given community banks’ propensity to do real estate transactions, why wouldn’t such a fee-based line of business flourish? Community FIs, in general, are not making money with these products.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

From opposite political directions, Senators Shelby and Brown stand on point to greatly influence community banking’s agenda in the next Congress. The mix of contrasts and similarities of Shelby’s and Brown’s perspectives and policymaking portend an active session for community banking’s agenda in the new 114th Congress.

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