Jeff For Banks
APRIL 30, 2022
Me: Commercial Real Estate loans are the most profitable product in a community bank's arsenal and have been through various interest rate environments. Bank Senior Lender: Not when you consider the whole relationship. The pre-tax ROA might not look great.
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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Independent Banker
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
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.
Jeff For Banks
MARCH 21, 2024
Trillions of dollars of subsidies on “green” BS projects, electric vehicles no one wants, tax credits, debt forgiveness, and free money all fuel demand and contribute to inflation. It sounds like 2007 all over again, when people got tired of looking at LEI and then in 2008, all hell broke loose. Real GDP was +3.2% in 4Q23, of which.73%
Independent Banker
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
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.
Jeff For Banks
MAY 20, 2017
The Great Recession lasted from the fourth quarter 2007 through the second quarter 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. For the below chart, I took every bank and savings bank, not federal thrifts because during this time they still filed TFRs versus Call Reports, and therefore their loan categories were different.
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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