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How Community Financial Institutions Can Regain the Small Business Lending Market

Abrigo

In today’s banking world, community banks are focused sharply on shareholders’ expectations for growth in earnings and return on equity. So, how can community banks support earnings and ROE growth in the face of intense regulatory scrutiny and competitive pressures on profitability? Changing Lending Environment. What's Next.

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FDIC-Backed Institutions Rake In $40.8B In Q4

PYMNTS

That growth, the FDIC said, came mainly from a $6.8 More than half of the 6,182 institutions that reported to the FDIC showed growth year over year in earnings in the latest quarter. In reference to community banks, the 5,735 that reported said they had $5.1 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said on Tuesday (Feb.

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How ‘old school personal banking’ helped turn Optus Bank around

American Banker

From 2010 to 2018 the South Carolina bank was on the FDIC's problem bank list, but in the last two years it has been profitable. Dominik Mjartan, the bank's president and CEO, explains how technology upgrades and relationship building helped it get back on track.

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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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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. ILCs are used to form industrial loan companies, better known as industrial banks.

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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. That 13% represented 80% of the losses to the FDIC insurance fund. That’s why we’re starting to see all this focus around your ADC, now known as HVCRE portfolio.

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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

Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? In many respects, community banks were caught in the cross-fire through the purchase of those mbs instruments – and subsequent trial through public sentiment. We took a serious reputational hit. credit default swaps anyone?).

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