Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 14, 2021

In June of 2008 I gave a speech titled "The Death of the Community Bank" and in that speech I made predictions. Much like the General Store fell victim to the supermarket and the lumber yard fell victim to Home Depot, I predicted the community bank that did not pick targeted customer niches or develop product expertise will meet it's doom.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The current market volatility has been with us for nearly three years. This has kept investment options for community financial institutions at historic lows. Market volatility and prolonged low bond yields is keeping investors on the sidelines. Community FIs are experiencing similar activity from their Main Street customers.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 4, 2018

"The FDIC recently has observed instances of liquidity stress at a small number of insured banks." So opened the Summer 2017 FDIC Supervisory Insights issue. I recently wrote that I thought bankers would have to prepare to offer rates more in line with the market. And so went your exams. The Fed Funds Rate was 1.25%-1.50%.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

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. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? trillion failed. What caused it?

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending. They need a marketing person to title their reports. We perform this service for dozens of community banks.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 4, 2014

Now the amount of money in US registered investment companies exceeds that in FDIC insured banks. The branch is king, and if you don''t have one in a market, you will not succeed there. Lending Club funded $5 billion in loans since its founding in 2007. Was Vanguard a disruptor? Was ING Direct a disruptor? And Quicken Loans.

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Long Lasting Ideas

MARCH 3, 2016

FASB’s complex proposal (Current Expected Credit Loss, or CECL) would force community banks to record a provision for credit losses the moment they make a loan. Let’s look back a few years at around 2007 and 2008, around the time of the Great Recession. at Bank Marketing Strategy + Ideas.

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