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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. On Thanksgiving 2007, he founded Bank of Montana, which now has one branch and 13 employees.

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A Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation

PYMNTS

And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Commercial Real Estate or Business Lending: Which Is Better?

Jeff For Banks

Me: Commercial Real Estate loans are the most profitable product in a community bank's arsenal and have been through various interest rate environments. I understand this is financial alchemy, but most of our clients allocate more capital to the business loan because it has less reliable collateral. But we have work to do.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. These caps were 100% of capital for construction loans, and 300% for all investor CRE. How did we get here? What are HVCRE loans?

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

Jeff For Banks

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. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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Beneficial State Bank’s financial activism

Independent Banker

The idea that community banking can be a force for positive change is at the heart of Beneficial State Bank, which engages its customers through financial activism. billion-asset community bank in Oakland, Calif., When it comes down to it, though, the community bank’s mission is radically simple. Photo: Ashley Courter.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

In 2013 there were 246 bank and thrift merger and acquisition deals announced, the highest number since 2007 when there were 318 deals. This all comes with fewer banks than there were in 2007. Read: We need to be bigger and have more capital to keep up with regulation and the industry. What is driving deal volume?