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Should You Be Marking Loans To Market?

South State Correspondent

The AOCI is an accounting adjustment meant to reflect the economic value of assets and is the process of “marking loans to market.” In this article, we explore what signals marking your loans to market might send. It was back in August of 2007 when credit spreads started to widen. Capital got scarce.

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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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What’s Changed in the 10 Years Since Quant Quake? Not Much.

Bank Innovation

Ten years ago today, in the months leading to the start of the global recession, the ‘Quant Quake’ of August 10, 2007 shook Wall Street. But what’s changed since the Quant Crash of 2007? Have we found ways to protect the market from unexpected and extreme downturns driven, at least in part, by quants?

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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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Banking"s Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2020 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. First Capital, Inc.

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The powerful, but quiet marketing message of the Best Banks

Long Lasting Ideas

The title alone may beg the question: What in the world does employee happiness have to do with marketing a bank?’. And moreover, think about the message those happy employees communicate to current and potential customers. Happy bankers also engage with the community beyond the branch’s four walls. HomeBanc in Tampa, Fla.,

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.