2007 Community Lending Security 
Jeff For Banks
AUGUST 29, 2016
A recent Bank Think post by ConnectOne Bank CEO Frank Sorrentino regarding restoring Glass-Steagall got me thinking about how far the debate has drifted from the root causes of the 2007-08 financial crisis. In 2007, that number climbed to 127%. Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) almost tripled between 1996 and 2007, to $7.3
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
And in lending, with the financial crisis in the rearview mirror, a decade on, invention – okay, innovation – has become a hallmark, at least in some corners. But a standstill in the credit markets created a vacuum for a bit, at least along traditional lending conduits. It should be noted that almost all mortgage security finance (i.e.,
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South State Correspondent
APRIL 10, 2023
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.
Jeff For Banks
APRIL 12, 2018
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? Real estate secured.
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. The old borrow short, lend long strategy. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities.
Jeff For Banks
NOVEMBER 7, 2015
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. In other words, be a General Bank.
Jeff For Banks
JULY 2, 2015
Since 2007, banks have been challenged to grow revenues. Many if not most small businesses are not “bankable”, in the lending sense of the word. No risk appetite to do early stage business lending? Perhaps develop a small business lending marketplace with several options. This presents a challenge.
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