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The Death of the Community Bank

Jeff For Banks

When I made that speech in 2008, there were approximately 8,500 FDIC-insured financial institutions and today that is around 5,000, a 40% decline. Prediction: Community Banks with < $10 billion in total assets will continue to lose market share. Eighteen percent of that group opened an account at a digital bank. Result: Mixed.

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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. To you, manage your interest rate risk. Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2

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The Federal Home Loan Bank System: Lender of Next-to-Last Resort

Jeff For Banks

"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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Why Better Data Is The First Step In Curing The Startup Slump

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Five years after the worst of the carnage in the data out of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) showed that lending was beginning to normalize — lending to big businesses had recovered, consumer lending was showing signs of thawing as the mortgage markets began showing signs of coming back from the dead.

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Disruptive technology will not kill banks

Jeff For Banks

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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Community Financial Institutions: Parking Lot for the Benjamins

Jeff For Banks

The current market volatility has been with us for nearly three years. Market volatility and prolonged low bond yields is keeping investors on the sidelines. From December 31, 2009 through June 30, 2011, deposits for all FDIC insured depositories increased 5.84%. At first, senior managers of FIs felt good about the inflow.

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Banking's Total Return Top 5

Jeff For Banks

In 1979, George Gleason, a 25-year-old attorney, purchased controlling interest and assumed active management of the bank as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. This has led to $863 million of covered loans (loss share arrangements with FDIC), and a yield on such loans of 8.69%, according to its latest investor presentation.

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