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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Real GDP was +3.2%

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Yet community bankers serving the oil industry say they’ve been expecting a drop in the notoriously cyclical price of crude. Pat Hickman, chairman and CEO of Happy State Bank, a $2.6 By Howard Schneider. New energy regions adapt.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. 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. The economy has grown 2.2%

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

Jeff For Banks

The Great Recession lasted from the fourth quarter 2007 through the second quarter 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. How significant was CRE lending to the souring of bank loan portfolios? It shows the pre-tax profit as a percent of the loan portfolios measured.

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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. The bank has a goal of closing 100 reverse mortgages each month this year.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

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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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

(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. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona.