Abrigo

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The banking industry has seen a steady stream of media attention since 2008, much of it in the form of stories about data breaches linked to major retailers or mega banks’ profits. Two recent surveys addressing the community banking landscape have pointed to increasing regulations as the primary cause of stress for these institutions.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Effective stress testing can benefit many different facets of lending, from risk management and strategic decision-making to capital adequacy and liquidity management. However, the lack of prescriptive guidance on how to effectively stress the loan portfolio has created challenges for some community financial institutions. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

India-based financial services provider Reliance Capital has announced it will exit the lending market. 30), Reuters reported , noting that the company is struggling to overcome “collateral damage” resulting from a slowing national economic and a broader “crisis,” the publication said, in India’s lending sector.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The global financial crisis in 2008 was, in many ways, a catalyst to this innovation, especially in the area of small business (SMB) finance, as banks pulled their services away from SMBs and FinTechs stepped in to offer another option. author of the report and Florida Atlantic University’s Kaye Family Endowed Professor in Finance.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

Working through any difficulty or crisis at your community bank won’t be a walk in the park, but it may lead to an experience for which you’re truly grateful. As a community banker, you’re either going through a crisis or you’re preparing for one. Is there education or training at ICBA Community Banker University that can help?

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 30, 2022

Me: Commercial Real Estate loans are the most profitable product in a community bank's arsenal and have been through various interest rate environments. By the time the FF hit zero at the end of 2008, CRE was the last product standing. Bank Senior Lender: Not when you consider the whole relationship. But we have work to do.

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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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TheGuardian

JANUARY 15, 2023

As originally showcased in a 2012 Channel 4 series, it is the true story of how self-made Burnley businessman Dave Fishwick took on London’s elite banking institutions to get a licence to open his own bank serving the local community.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 13, 2023

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Notably, most community banks’ duration risk is in the loan portfolio.

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Abrigo

JULY 20, 2021

From leveraging PPP technology to building relationships, reasons for boosting SBA lending are numerous. . Takeaway 2 Far fewer financial institutions regularly participate in SBA (7a) lending than the more than 5,000 that joined the PPP. . Why SBA Lending? Want other articles like this on SBA loan origination in your inbox?

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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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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, while community banks ‘ portfolios grew 14.7 But the story doesn’t end there. percent a month prior.

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Abrigo

JUNE 19, 2020

The 2008 financial crisis exposed significant weaknesses of relying on incurred losses. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. SBA Lending. How the Pandemic and PPP Have ‘Turbo-charged’ New Business Lending Strategies. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. CRE Lending. C&I Loans.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

CPAs [(certified public accountants)] play a key role in the small business community as trusted business advisors,” said AICPA Vice President of Small Firm Interests Carl Peterson in a statement. The SBA and AICPA have been working together since 2008, the entities noted.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In recent years, banks have even seen greater competition in the lending market from new FinTech players that can quickly approve loan applications and distribute funds to lenders. Some of the more prominent names in the marketplaces lending space include OnDeck, Kabbage and Orion First. New tools for new FinTechs.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. Clearly, community banks in the region have plenty of opportunities to do what they do best: forge deep and lasting relationships with their customers and communities. These include family-owned businesses, community businesses and operating companies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2016

Though small businesses have suffered from a gap in financing availability post-2008, the demographic continues to shape the financial markets. One of these lenders, Clearinghouse Community Development Financial Institution , better known as Clearinghouse CDFI, offers an interesting view into the state of SME finance. A Regional Reach.

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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. April 2011.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

When the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights was developed in 2015, it appeared as if alternative SME lenders were collectively taking a stance against predatory lending practices in an effort to protect small businesses. “Bank lending has still not recovered from 2008. Loan sizes have gone up.”.

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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. This recession is significantly different than the 2008 financial crisis, creating a unique credit environment for financial institutions. Learn More. Portfolio Risk & CECL.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

There are a lot of retailers that are now looking to their local community to effectively prepay through gift cards to sustain themselves in the short term,” he said. They have strong balance sheets and the ability to lean in and lend, which is very important.”.

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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.” Louis Fed estimated that community banks pay an estimated $4.5 Since the passage of Dodd-Frank, over 1,700 U.S. banks have disappeared. billion annually in compliance costs.

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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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Ublocal

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In celebration of our new Shelburne Village branch recently opening, we have collected input and insights from the wonderful community of people working and living in Shelburne, Vermont. My wife also works in Shelburne, managing The Terraces, a retirement community. Shelburne is a unique community. Shelburne welcomed us.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Community bankers offer real-world reasons for more Basel III relief. Nearly one year after the Basel III capital rules went into effect, community bankers say that now recognize just how much more complex and how much more difficult this new set of capital rules will make life and business for them if they remain in place.

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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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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. Economists cite as the main culprit the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — defaults on high-risk housing loans — which led to a credit crunch in the global banking system and a precipitous drop in bank lending. To fight inflation, the Fed raised rates aggressively (familiar?).

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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. This section provides that Section 131 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Premium benefits packages, professional development and TLC during the pandemic—this year’s winners do everything in their power to keep their community bankers happy and fulfilled. We asked both leaders and staffers to tell us what makes their community banks stand out as employers. Key Community Bank: Leading by example.

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Community Bank Community Texas Leadership 164

FICO

DECEMBER 1, 2020

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? They can optimize the use of their capital and who they lend to.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2016

But researchers found troubling patterns in the ways SMEs access the capital they need, and it goes beyond issues of complicated lending processes or distrust of a bank. And the statistics, Wesleyan said, suggest that small businesses have gotten used to a lack of traditional bank funding following the 2008 financial crisis.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The alternative finance boom post-2008 financial crisis undoubtedly provided more options for small business (SMB) borrowers, but that doesn’t mean the industry is guaranteed to become a staple among entrepreneurs seeking financing.

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

He retired in 2008 from BofA, but they thought so much of him they brought him back to assist with the Merrill Lynch integration. Selection: Mitch Englert, EVP of Community Banking, Capital City Bank Group, Inc. I focused on traditional community banks and did not consider high yield type banks such as credit card banks.

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NCR

MARCH 7, 2018

This is a concern that has been exacerbated following the 2008 financial crisis, which led to the Dodd-Frank rules that aim to strengthen the separation between deposit-taking and other activities. At the moment, thoughts of any changes to these regulations are still hypothetical.

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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. This article explores the risk and what to do about it.

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