Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Derek Williams, president and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Ga., wanted to be a financier before finding his way to community banking. He has served as president and CEO of $365 million-asset Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Ga., now part of Bank of America, before moving to Griffin, Ga.,

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American Banker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

While troubling factors such as higher risk profiles may be behind the recent lending boom, the industry could also just be returning to the historical average for loan growth following the "Great Panic" of 2008-2010.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index found that loan approval rates at alternative lenders stagnated – and at credit unions, they actually fell. SMBs since the 2008 financial recession. percent decline in shares at large banks , coinciding with a 7.8 Big banks’ loan portfolios increased by 3.1

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American Banker

APRIL 22, 2020

The program, created in response to the 2008 financial crisis, generated $19 billion in small-business loans. It could be used as a viable path out of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Ken Finley, president of Johnson City Bank, in downtown Johnson City with Shannon Sultemeier, executive vice president (left); and Brenda Haynes, vice president/cashier (right). Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The CARES Act extended the CECL implementation deadline for many larger community banks until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community bankers tell us that while the extension is welcome, they’re already down the road to implementation. ICBA tells FASB CECL isn’t feasible for community banks. By Stephanie Vozza.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 27, 2011

I was at a strategic planning retreat a few weeks back where a colleague lauded the concept of bankers getting back to plain vanilla community banking. But if you read or watch interviews of CEOs of community FIs from 2008 forward, you will be bombarded with the message that they didn''t engage in the things that led to the collapse.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Key Takeaways This recession is significantly different than the 2008 financial crisis, creating a unique credit environment for financial institutions. Now, banks and credit unions must determine how to safely and effectively manage risk in the portfolio while also driving growth at their institution. Learn More. Stress Testing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act was supposed to prevent another 2008 banking meltdown — and solve the problem of “too big to fail.” banks have disappeared. And those banks are going out of business — or merging with bigger players — largely due to the complexity and cost of compliance.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example. Key Community Bank. At the heart of Key Community Bank’s work culture is connection. Greg Dennis, Key Community Bank. “We

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Abrigo

MARCH 6, 2015

While federal regulators only require this small number of banks to be subject to these particular stress tests, as outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act following the economic crisis of 2008, stress testing is becoming a critical part of financial institutions’ risk management strategies, regardless of their asset sizes.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Since then, community banks have been struggling to understand all of the regulation’s various complex “moving parts” and how to best comply with it, says James Kendrick, vice president for accounting and capital policy at ICBA. ICBA supports strong minimum capital levels for all banks, including community banks.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 30, 2020

Section 4011 – Temporary Lending Limit Waiver. Section 4012 – Temporary Relief For Community Banks. Pursuant to the EGRRCPA, Bank regulators had announced the Community Bank Leverage Ratio at 9% of Total Assets.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. 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? We took a serious reputational hit.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 29, 2017

Anyone following the banking vendor space over the past few years knows that the standalone loan origination system providers – across all lending verticals of mortgage, consumer and commercial – are clearly taking the core vendors to the cleaners. Functionality. Point systems provide better system functionality (usually).

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Abrigo

MARCH 20, 2015

For the largest of American financial institutions – those that much of the public banks with for checking, mortgages and auto loans – stress testing regulations have been passed and executed to avoid a repeat of 2008. California is also a healthy state for banking – with 15 of 20 banks on the Western list in the Golden State.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Chan was a former Bank of America senior executive, serving as the Corporate Treasurer, Enterprise Risk, and various other functions during his career. He retired in 2008 from BofA, but they thought so much of him they brought him back to assist with the Merrill Lynch integration. What has Monty delivered to Security Bank?

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2018

One of the reasons for this separation has been a desire to ensure that customer deposits are kept safe from use in high-risk non-banking practices. Mr Noreika’s remarks seem to give support to the idea of allowing greater competition in the banking sector. .

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Investment principles of top bank portfolio managers. Community bank institutional investment portfolio managers have been put through their paces the past several years. Yet that is exactly what many community banks have accomplished. Mikella Newsom, City Bank. By Karen Epper Hoffman. The barbell approach.

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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.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article provides an update on pricing trends driven by our Loan Command aggregated community bank data and highlights some working pricing ideas. Because of the loan mix, banks are currently pricing their weighted commercial portfolio to a 16% ROE, or under their target. Total industry loans grew 5.1%

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Kaarin Long stops by a local manufacturer while getting to know customers as Investors Community Bank’s cash management relationship manager. Investors Community Bank in Manitowoc, Wis. IB: What is Investors Community Bank like? Banking changed in 2008. Photo by Mike Roemer. Kaarin Long.

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Ublocal

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What we learned there encouraged us to buy our own land and we opened our Rt 7 winery in 2008. Stephen Kendall Executive VP – Senior Residential & Consumer Loan Officer NMLS: 627431 Union Bank Working out of our Williston Loan Center, Stephen oversees the bank’s residential and consumer lending functions.

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ForwardBanker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Last year, when rates were rising, Deluxe warned that banks should learn from the 2008 financial crisis that rate cuts are not always predictable, and can be devastating to earnings. In both.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 14 locations. It also conducts mortgage banking from 12 offices in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, and North Dakota. (OTCQX: BNCC) BNCCORP, Inc.,

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 21, 2012

@JeffMarsico Credit Union CEO: "The differences between CUs & community banks are inflated by trade groups. We should focus on big banks." jfb note: This was told to me at a conference that was designed specifically to lobby the Federal government with the key issue being expanding CUs business lending.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We consult to the mid-size and community banking space. Like you, we make our livelihood from this industry and have deep respect for the banking business and the people in it. For many years, we all respected and admired the phenomenal brand you built—the folksy, hometown bank that scaled without compromising values.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Indeed, banks generally pull back on lending if longer-term loan rates are less than their cost of funds, which are generally based on shorter-term rates. Back in 2008, the LHC started up with a bang and led to all kinds of new physics particle knowledge. But more physics discoveries (and updates from me) will have to wait.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 4, 2020

Readers note: You can also view this post on Penn Community Bank's website. They also implemented large, aggressive borrowing and purchase programs for Treasuries, Agency mortgage backed securities, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, loans, commercial paper, bank lending, and small business loan programs. Click here.

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NCR

APRIL 13, 2016

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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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 19, 2015

The bank was hammered with credit problems during the financial crisis, as Michigan's economy was hit pretty hard. Between 2008-11, the bank lost over $200 million, and its equity base was cut in half. It also conducts mortgage banking from 12 offices in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, and North Dakota.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

The Peoples Bank helped the Jones family of Legacy Dairy in Hiseville, Ky., From left, Ally Jones; bank chairman, president and CEO Terry L. Last year, community bank loan producers were faced with both record-low interest rates and a glut of deposits. Ag lending in the South: Relationships matter. By Ed Avis.

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Abrigo

MARCH 13, 2023

Historic collapse SVB is different from other financial institutions The FDIC closure and assumption of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – the largest bank failure since 2008 – is a stark reminder that when a crisis occurs, it can spread as fast as a wildfire in dry fields with a strong wind.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

This is an extension of business services, powered by a local community bank. A mobile wallet powered by a local bank, built on the Malauzai platform. This certainly adds a lot of technological capacity to the community bank. Malauzai enables the community bank to build their own app, “local mobile wallets.”

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Abrigo

APRIL 7, 2022

At recent Abrigo CECL Kickstart webinars, consultants demonstrated CECL implementation practices with an emphasis on the needs of community banks and credit unions. What if our lending footprint is very small and not affected by macroeconomic factors such as unemployment? Reasonable, defensible, data-based CECL models.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

2008 called and wants its headlines back. SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Seacoast Bank is at it again… and this time it is blowing past $10B in a big way. in assets, which will rocket the bank to more than $15B in assets. The Smarter Bank Data Award.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2022

Instantly, the cash flow for those businesses that many community banks lent to is impacted. The result is an unrealistic view of risk that deceive both management and the regulators into believing the bank has a solid risk plan when in fact, they do not. At that point, banks were then reluctant to sell.

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