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Are de novos making a comback?

Abrigo

The FDIC paper The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks published in April 2016 reports that the number of de novo bank failures and acquisitions annually has drastically declined since 2010, primarily due to the fact that new bank formations have become nearly inexistent. A low interest rate environment 2.

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Get your ducks in a row: HVCRE risk management

Abrigo

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. Leading up the recession and these significant losses, CRE grew in a regulatory environment that “permitted lower capital requirements and did not impose lending caps, merely supervisory limits”.

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Reports of Small Business Lending’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Celent Banking

Let’s take a look at data compiled by the FDIC starting in 2010. The overall volume of small business loans increased year-over-year from 2010 to June 2015, with a CAGR of approximately 3%. Banks are happy to work with credit-worthy small businesses to meet their working capital needs.

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Why The ICBA Is Fighting Industrial Loan Charters For FinTechs

PYMNTS

An industrial bank is an FDIC-insured depository institution that is generally subject to the same banking laws and regulations as any other bank charter type, with the important exception of the Bank Holding Act of 1956. Square already has an SMB lending arm – Square Capital – which it operates through a deal with Utah-based Celtic Bank.

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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

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” According to the FDIC, the causes of the 2008-09 financial crisis lay partly in the housing boom and bust of the mid-2000s; partly in the degree to which the U.S.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

PYMNTS

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. In 2010, LendingClub added to its war chest with a $24.5

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Are the regulators getting you down?

Jeff For Banks

The FDIC has nearly quadrupled its enforcement actions (“EA”) over the past three years. The difference here is that SCNB has been profitable throughout the crisis, and achieved a 1.12% ROA for the third quarter 2010. Why do many, if not most of these orders contain Articles relating to strategic and capital plans?