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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 much sought after "operating account." So the answer, from a straight pre-tax profit perspective, is commercial real estate in more recent times and a rising rate environment.

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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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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. FirstBank, which has $2.3

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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

Mortgage bankers and brokers own a significant share of market (although less than prior to the 2007-08 financial crisis). Most community financial institution strategies has some sort of “community” focus. It’s implied whenever someone says “we’re a community bank”. pre-tax profit as a percent of the portfolio.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

billion of assets and operates twenty five branches in the western suburbs of Chicago. billion in asset company headquartered in West Virginia, providing community banking services primarily in the Eastern Panhandle and South Central regions of the state, and the Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia. Then, kaboom!

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Through all this, First Farmers has remained disciplined in performance and squarely focused on customers and community. Acronym of the Year.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The promises included tax cuts to 15% (although a much less dramatic decrease is expected), repeal and replacement of ObamaCare (stalled in the Senate), regulatory reform (some energy rules relaxed, but not much else), infrastructure spending to repair and replace our crumbling structures, roads, airports, electrical grids, etc.