Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Clockwise from top left: Grand Ridge National Bank, Wheaton, Ill.; Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. Can Bank of Montana’s success be replicated? Grand Ridge National Bank.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

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. We perform this service for dozens of community banks. Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. I've got news for you. Seems risky.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2018

In my career, I’ve lived through many years of the Fed raising interest rates and it’s my experience that they usually tighten too much and keep rates high for too long, just like in 2001 and 2006-2007. As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Bank Merger of the Year. Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(Nasdaq: OSBC) Old Second is a single-bank holding company headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. That got regulator's attention in the form of a May 2011 Consent Order (CO). In 2007, the Bank had $1.1 How did they lose it?

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. For some banks, the amount of gas station and convenience store loans is about equal to loans to US businesses that are owned by foreign nationals. Thus, the framework at most banks has these two risks as equal.

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