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. How significant was CRE lending to the souring of bank loan portfolios? Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

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. trillion failed. What caused it?

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2018

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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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 12, 2018

Mortgage bankers and brokers own a significant share of market (although less than prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis). Most community financial institution strategies has some sort of “community” focus. It’s implied whenever someone says “we’re a community bank”. Even the big banks. Not charitable moxy.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

I believe that we are in this era of weak growth, now eight years old, for the long haul unless changes are made to regulation and we stop adding debt at break-neck speed. million at the end of December, 2007, before the crisis hit in 2008. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. The regulator and media pressure on overdraft fees has been a constant challenge to overdraft revenue.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Their non-performing loans (NPL)/total loans ratio peaked at 12.54% in 2010, and between 2009-12, the Bank charged off over 11% of its loan portfolio. That got regulator's attention in the form of a May 2011 Consent Order (CO). Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2

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