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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. It is hard to achieve geographical diversification within a bank’s footprint.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. It is hard to achieve geographical diversification within a bank’s footprint.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Financial Markets & Economic Update - Fourth Quarter 2023 Summer Update On this warm October day, I am staring at my Bloomberg screen, still heartbroken over the Phillies Phailure. Unsurprisingly, the largest declines occurred starting monthly in March, 2006 and on a y-o-y basis in September, 2006 and continued to November, 2009.

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Common Misperceptions: Community Banks are Beating the Behemoths

Jeff For Banks

One such theme was the right sizing of community banks'' funding sources. Since the dawn of the financial crisis in 2007, loan demand has fallen off of the cliff, and therefore community banks did not need their historically high amount of CD funding. Our deposit coffers swelled like a puffer fish.

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Banking-As-A-Service Takes On The Underbanked SMB

PYMNTS

’s latest numbers on the topic revealing the lowest level of underbanked individuals since the survey began in 2009. At the same time, bank branch closures appear to be accelerating, with small towns across the country losing a combined 14 percent of their banks between 2012 and 2017. Regional Banks, Credit Unions Compete.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Financial Markets & Economic Update- Third Quarter, 2019 Summer is upon us and I cannot wait to get to the beach for vacation. Although business confidence fell from the uncertainty, stock markets were reaching new record highs on many of indices. in eight of the forty-one quarters since 2009. GDP was +3.1%

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

annually since 2009, while the record expansion of the 1990s saw growth of 3.6%. There are some signs of slowing in the housing markets; both existing and new home sales in June fell amidst rising mortgage rates and fewer gains in home prices. One of the causes of low growth since 2009 is uncovered! The economy has grown 2.2%