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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. 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.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

The thinking is that diversification-induced lending leads to banking resiliency. 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.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

In a recent Sageworks webinar Robert Ashbaugh, senior risk management consultant at Sageworks, discusses High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE) lending best practices. Ashbaugh goes on to demonstrate that the default rates for these loans did not peak until about 2009, and the ALLL did not increase until 2010.

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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. In 2009, that percent rose to 37%, although that is off 1% from the prior year.

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

Jeff For Banks

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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4 challenges banks and credit unions are facing today

Abrigo

Given the many differences between a community institution and a bank with $100 billion in assets, the challenges facing back executives and their financial institutions may differ dramatically at various times. Internal challenges Top management will be familiar with many of the internal challenges.

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LendKey And Unlocking A Generation Of Borrowers For Small Banks And Credit Unions

PYMNTS

But, Passione noted, many of the players who are taking a pass on offering student lending and other forms of personal loans often aren’t doing so for lack of interest — but lack of ability via smart technology. Lending-as-a-Service. There are currently 13,000 community banks in the U.S.,

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