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Commercial Real Estate or Business Lending: Which Is Better?

Jeff For Banks

Me: Commercial Real Estate loans are the most profitable product in a community bank's arsenal and have been through various interest rate environments. The charts below show the pre-tax profits as a percent of the total product portfolio during different rate scenarios compared to the Fed Funds Rate.

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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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The Velocity of Risk – What Bankers Need To Know

South State Correspondent

One morning, President Trump tweeted his desire for an additional tax on all foreign-owned companies operating in the US. Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. That is a significant change in risk for a material part of a large community bank’s balance sheet.

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

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. billion-asset community bank based in Happy, Texas. By Howard Schneider. Pat Hickman, Happy State Bank.

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Reverse Trend

Independent Banker

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. who oversees 32 loan officers dedicated to providing the loans. About the market.

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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

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

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