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Community Bank Acquires SMB Digital Bank Seed

PYMNTS

Community financial institution (FI) Cross River Bank is acquiring Seed , a small business (SMB) digital banking company, reports in Reuters said on Monday (June 24). Cross River Bank has partnered with a range of FinTech startups since its 2008 launch, including collaborations with Stripe , Coinbase and Affirm , reports said.

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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

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). Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below.

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CRE Credit Risk – What You Need To Know Now

South State Correspondent

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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Should You Be Marking Loans To Market?

South State Correspondent

Available-for-sale securities are reported at fair value, and any unrealized gains and losses are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI) in the equity section of the balance sheet. By 2008, there were a variety of failures as a result of liquidity – Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, and more. Capital got scarce.

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3Q 2023 Commercial Loan Pricing Trends

South State Correspondent

This article provides an update on pricing trends driven by our Loan Command aggregated community bank data and highlights some working pricing ideas. Regarding loan growth, lending continues to be at the slowest pace since 2008. Total industry loans grew 5.1% for the year compared to last year.

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Jim Reber: March sanity

Independent Banker

By Jim Reber, ICBA Securities. What this has to do with community bank investment management may not be readily apparent. The S&P 500 Index dropped 12.4%, which was the worst monthly stock performance since 2008. Belly of the curve matters to community banks. Photo by Gleitfrosch/iStock. There are really two reasons.

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SVB: Early lessons for all financial institutions from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure

Abrigo

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. Enter interest rate risk.

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