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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. 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. What great resignation?

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

Jeff For Banks

And regulators are getting anxious. 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. How significant was CRE lending to the souring of bank loan portfolios?

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending?

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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. The result is an unrealistic view of risk that deceive both management and the regulators into believing the bank has a solid risk plan when in fact, they do not. At that point, banks were then reluctant to sell.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. The old borrow short, lend long strategy.

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All Pain, No Gain

Independent Banker

Of course, Basel III—otherwise known as the Third Basel Accord—is a global regulatory framework on bank capital adequacy, stress testing and market liquidity risk. The internationally adopted rules, aimed at responding to the deficiencies that led to the 2007 financial crisis, took effect Jan. No one was prepared for January 1st.”.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

ILCs are used to form industrial loan companies, better known as industrial banks. An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956.

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