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Commercial Credit Trends – Where to Tread Carefully

South State Correspondent

In 2021, we published articles warning bankers against higher rates (for example, HERE ) and the resulting impact on credit. We have seen the higher rates, and now bankers should brace for a credit shock. Lending is getting riskier. Once again, it is time to play more defense. When you write a blog, your work is there for all to see.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

THE BANKER AWARDS. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Doug Larson. Gonzo readers, 2021 was just plain schizophrenic.

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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

Founded in 2007 with a focus on community development, the community development financial institution (CDFI) has goals that extend far beyond its West Coast communities. The team at Beneficial State Bank believes that banking has the power to bring about radical change. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif.,

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Reverse Trend

Independent Banker

Community banks, which will continue to face a growing number of senior customers with everyday cash needs and built-up home equity, should explore this niche lending opportunity, two community bankers providing these specialty loans suggest. who oversees 32 loan officers dedicated to providing the loans. FirstBank, which has $2.3

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Below, we look at some the worst mergers and acquisitions undertaken by large corporations, and how the good times went bad. The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. Microsoft and Nokia.

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Where are The FinTech Darlings Now?

Jeff For Banks

A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. So far I'm up to five mentions. We all know there is something to it. But look back five years to see what the doomsayers were predicting and you'll have a healthy dose of skepticism about their predictions today. Legit question.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

After the collapse of Lehman and Bear Stearns and the global financial crisis that ensued, the business models of the world’s biggest investment banks needed to change. In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand.