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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. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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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. Community banks are already diversified within their geography and loan categories.

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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

PYMNTS

The risk of closing malls, the report said, has the potential to reshape entire communities, which are debating whether abandoned malls can be turned into office space or affordable housing. on the residential component. Brookfield declined to offer a cost estimate for the project.)

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

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Financial Stability Board Calls For Current Crypto Education

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“Technology is changing the nature of traditional finance; the non-bank sector has grown, and requires deeper understanding and coordination among the supervisory and regulatory community. Pressures that can lead to market fragmentation exist. Federal Reserve governor — in the letter.

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

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’s latest numbers on the topic revealing the lowest level of underbanked individuals since the survey began in 2009. Consumers aren’t the only ones struggling to cope with the lack of a bank presence in their communities, forcing them to use expensive non-bank financial products like money transfer and check-cashing services.