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Best Community Banks to Work For 2022

Independent Banker

Community Financial Services Bank, Benton, Ky.; In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. On Thanksgiving 2007, he founded Bank of Montana, which now has one branch and 13 employees.

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Preparing For the 7 Waves From The Fed Hike

South State Correspondent

This decision coincided with rate hikes by the Swiss National Bank, its first since 2007, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank announced at an emergency meeting that they would raise interest rates next month and again in September. This secular change will allow better-managed banks to outperform their peers. Conclusion.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. How did we get here? Ashbaugh’s presentation begins with a quick summary of why regulators care about HVCRE.

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CRE Credit Risk – What You Need To Know Now

South State Correspondent

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure. This article explores the risk and what to do about it.

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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

Banks that are looking to enhance their risk management practices should consider incorporating the concept of the velocity of risk into their enterprise-wide risk management practices. In this article, we explore why and how banks are starting to incorporate the “velocity of risk” into their risk management practices.

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” So why would banks expand small-ticket, unsecured personal lending? Even the big banks.

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

Jeff For Banks

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. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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