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Commercial Real Estate or Business Lending: Which Is Better?

Jeff For Banks

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. So the answer, from a straight pre-tax profit perspective, is commercial real estate in more recent times and a rising rate environment. The pre-tax ROA might not look great.

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Collections Predictions 2021: After the Debt Tsunami, the Flood

FICO

Increased provisions, reduced capital, less ability to lend. All this will raise the question: Whatever capital I have got, how much can I lend to borrowers who have a low confidence on their own financial prospects, and are unsure if they should borrow or not? Lower tax payments will bring more cuts.

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How to Get Small Business Capital in a Tight Market

NCR

In the following Q&A, Pango Financial CEO William Keenan offers insights on the cyclical nature of the lending market and advice for small business owners just starting out. Lending cycles track with economic cycles. The big shock was really the meltdown in 2008. They need to be extremely selective in who they lend to.

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Covid-19 briefing: post-lockdown macro

BankUnderground

This view is in line with Stiglitz (2015) , who argued that reliance on flow-based models, without a role for credit, actually contributed to the 2008 crisis, and to the initially inadequate response in its aftermath. Bordignon and Tabellini (2020) argue that the ERF should be endowed with genuinely own EU sources of tax revenue.

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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad?

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My Fantasy Banking Team

Jeff For Banks

He retired in 2008 from BofA, but they thought so much of him they brought him back to assist with the Merrill Lynch integration. Since his joining the Board, the bank has stabilized, returned to profitability, recaptured it's deferred tax asset, and NPAs/Assets have declined to less than 3%. Yeah, Chan can own my team.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

The BEA calculates the personal saving rate by subtracting taxes from personal income to arrive at “disposable personal income” and then subtracts personal outlays. Adding to the observation is the fact that from roughly 2001-2006, a devastating housing price bubble formed due to lax lending standards.

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