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Why You Need To Use Funds Transfer Pricing in Banking

South State Correspondent

FTP was introduced to banks in the early 1980s to help manage interest rate risk on a transactional basis. FTP gained further focus after the 2007 financial crisis when financial firms failed partly because of the lack of funds transfer pricing application and rigor. Simple Funds Transfer Pricing Example.

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

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.

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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. trillion failed. What caused it?

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We all remember the Great Recession, which began in 2007, but the LEI knew it as early as March, 2006. Jaworski 10/28/23 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis.

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

Jeff For Banks

It sounds like 2007 all over again, when people got tired of looking at LEI and then in 2008, all hell broke loose. DLJ 03/15/24 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis.

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

Jeff For Banks

But isn't fast growth by itself an indicator of increased risk of failure, regardless of the loans that fueled the growth? Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. And success is the great mollifier to risk managers that wish to take away the punch bowl when the party's rockin'.

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

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. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004. And does the following sound familiar?