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Top concerns and growth strategies of community banks: Part II

Abrigo

This article is the second in a two-part series on top concerns and growth strategies of community banks. Everyone in the banking industry seems to be asking the same question these days: How can we facilitate growth? Source: 2014 Growth Strategy Survey. Source: 2014 Growth Strategy Survey.

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Banks Keep SMB Lending Gains Rolling

PYMNTS

Analysts pointed to overall economic growth as a key factor behind big banks’ willingness to finance SMBs, pointing to better-than-expected second quarter economic growth. Regional and community banks also saw their small business loan approval rates increase, with small banks approving 49.8 percent.

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Portfolio Management

Independent Banker

As a consequence, supply-siders, like your bank’s brokers, tend to avoid using them during a sales pitch. It’s ironic, therefore, that one of those terms should actually be embraced by community bank investment managers, and should be used to begin the discussion of what’s suitable for their bank’s portfolio. They are 1.)

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How About Profits in the Branch of the Future?

Jeff For Banks

To experience the future of banking today, simply step across the threshold.” So went the 2012 press release announcing the opening of the next generation of the bank branch. At June 30, 2014, that branch had $23 million in total deposits, down $1 million from one year ago. Not very inspiring.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2018 Edition

Jeff For Banks

This is clearly a turnaround situation, as the bank lost over $12 million in 2010, over 20% of its capital (ouch). But once they turned things around they took their deferred tax asset back onto their books and did three acquisition. is the parent company of Willamette Valley Bank, a community bank headquartered in Salem, Oregon.

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Guest Post: Quarterly Financial Markets and Economics Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The two year Treasury yield reached 1.26%, its highest level since August, 2009 and the ten year Treasury yield reached 2.58%, its highest level since September, 2014. Corporate and personal tax cuts were promised, with the corporate rate dropping from 35% to 15%. The markets must think that GDP growth will soar on January 21 st.

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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

Between 1980 and 1995, more than 2,900 banks and thrifts with collective assets of more than $2.2 More recently and by comparison, the mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis took down more than 500 banks between 2007 and 2014, with total assets of nearly $959 billion. trillion failed.

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