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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. How significant was CRE lending to the souring of bank loan portfolios?

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 percent from last July to this January, and they haven’t hovered this low since 2009. Pat Hickman, chairman and CEO of Happy State Bank, a $2.6 It’s nothing that banks here can’t handle.”.

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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. 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? What caused it?

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My Fantasy Banking Team

Jeff For Banks

Chan was a former Bank of America senior executive, serving as the Corporate Treasurer, Enterprise Risk, and various other functions during his career. 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%.

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Too Much on the Dollar Menu?

Jeff For Banks

My company does line of business and product profitability reporting for community banks. What I have learned from performing this service is that very few products deliver the level of profits typically sought by high-performing banks. Commercial real estate lending was the common profit driver for banks and thrifts.

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The Thinker

Independent Banker

Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. The Peoples Bank Co. While out-of-town lenders gave money to customers requiring no down payments to buy overpriced homes that they couldn’t afford, Hartings, the president and CEO of The Peoples Bank Co. By Kelly Pike.

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The 2018 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Goes to the always-sharp Mitch Feiger and the team at MB Financial for the bank’s sale to Fifth Third at a 24% premium to market price in May. Timing is everything, and Feiger knew that after tripling the stock price since the 2009 downturn, it was time to get the shareholders a solid payback. Bank Purchase of the Year.

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