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Community Bank History: Peoples National Bank, Hallstead, Pennsylvania

Jeff For Banks

Community banks tout themselves as better than national and regional banks because of how close they are to their communities. But this opinion ignores the generations of history many banks across our great land have built. When the bank opened in 1905, Hallstead was already a thriving community.

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Stressing the importance of stress tests

Abrigo

March comes in like a lion for the nation’s largest banks. Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced how “the big banks” fared on their annual stress tests (The Wall Street Journal’s Briefly blog offers what to know and what is relevant about the exams).

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The Niche Bank

Jeff For Banks

Me to a community banker: Why don't you offer more options than real estate secured lending to help fund early stage businesses? Banker: Because that's not community banking. I've been in this business over 20 years and still don't know the definition of community banking. their yield on loans in 2009 was 12.19%.

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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%. One of the causes of low growth since 2009 is uncovered! Low productivity continues, just as it has since this recovery began in 2009, averaging only 1.3% Another of the causes of low growth since 2009 is unveiled! The economy has grown 2.2%

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

Jeff For Banks

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. The largest monthly decline took place in May, 2009 at -27.2% Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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An Unexpected Turn

Independent Banker

Early Air Force service prepared the way for community banking in California. After some protesting on my part, explaining repeatedly that I knew absolutely nothing about banking, Mom used the classic mothering tactic of reminding me, “You know son, ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained.’ ”. By Stephen M.

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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 By Howard Schneider.