Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Preparing for 2023 While community banks have until 2023 until they must comply with CECL, there is likely less time than expected. . Takeaway 3 In 2022, consistency is key. While community banks have until 2023 until they must comply with CECL, there is likely less time than expected. 2023 CECL Deadline?

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The Emmerich Group

JANUARY 20, 2022

And let’s also talk about how to make sure that you’re successfully managing some of these banking trends. Banking Trend Number One. The post Community Banking Trends for 2022 appeared first on Roxanne Emmerich. Continue Reading.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Nominations for 40 Under 40: Emerging Community Bank Leaders 2022 are now open! 40 Under 40 seeks to recognize community banking’s brightest, most promising young professionals. Community Involvement. 40 Under 40: Emerging Community Bank Leaders awards is sponsored by FIS. Leadership.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Those conversations, he says, centered around whether community banks could compete against this brash group of newcomers. Photo by Pogonici/iStock. Quick Stat.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

More than half of community bankers in a recent survey cited small business loans as a high priority in 2022, with most small business owners saying in the same poll that they plan to borrow an average of $2 million over the next two years.

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ABA Community Banking

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Insights from the 2022 Federal Reserve/CSBS survey of community banks. The post One in 10 community banks planning to launch crypto services appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We commissioned the 2021 Banking Impact Report to explore how banking trends are impacting local communities and the perceived role of community FIs. Key Findings: 78% of bank executives think a housing market crash is likely in the next five years. The growing importance of financial inclusion.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

billion in Q4 2022, down 79% from Q4 2021. The total number of deals funded dropped from 423 in Q4 2021 to 342 in Q4 2022, representing a 73% decline in the average funding amount per raise from $43 million down to $11.4 Community Banks as Venture Capitalists In fact, not all providers of venture capital are venture capitalists.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

For decades community banks have structured fixed-rate loans with adjustable features – the most popular structure is a ten-year fixed-rate loan with a five-year reprice. With short-term interest rates expected to rise through 2022, many community banks are reconsidering their ALCO strategies.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Given this new signal, community banks need to analyze what this interest rate environment means for their business model and how to maximize performance. The question is how will this interest rate development affect community banks’ performance, and what must community banks do to remain profitable?

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South State Correspondent

JULY 10, 2023

One possible solution to this dichotomy is for banks to offer interest rate swaps to hedge individual loans. This article will review domestic banks’ adoption of interest rate swaps. Next week’s article will consider the challenges and possible solutions for community banks to adopt loan hedging programs.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With the expiration of coronavirus-related relief provided under the CARES Act, the community bank leverage ratio will revert to a minimum of 9% starting on Jan. 1, 2022, the banking agencies said today. The post Agencies: Community Bank Leverage Ratio Returns to 9% on Jan.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Community banks are striving to increase loan yield and maintain their cost of funding (COF). We have created and used a novel structure to take advantage of the inverted yield curve to allow community banks to increase net interest margin (NIM) and fee income on these existing fixed-rate loans.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 21, 2022

This regime is now changing, and community banks need to position their lending and deposit portfolios for a period of monetary tightening. The market expects a 75bps increase in July, two more 50bps increases, and another 25bps increase in December 2022. Short-term rates are also likely to continue to climb through 2023.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 9, 2024

We estimate that the average contractual loan commitment for term credit at community banks has decreased from just under five years in 2022 to just under three years currently. Community banks should carefully consider the prudence of such a strategy from both a risk and revenue perspective.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 13, 2023

The failure of SVB is the first example we can recall since the Savings and Loan crisis, where a bank failed mainly because of a duration mismatch between assets and deposits. On the liability side of SVB’s $173B in deposits at the end of 2022, approximately 97% were uninsured and above the $250k in FDIC protection threshold.

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ABA Community Banking

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The American Bankers Association Foundation today launched its 2022 financial education campaign, which consists of four programs—Teach Children to Save, the Lights, Camera, Save! video contest, Safe Banking for Seniors and Get Smart About Credit.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As a point of reference, the S&P US BMI Bank Total Return Index for the five years ended December 9, 2022 was -1.21%. The bank consists of two segments: 1) the traditional community bank, and 2) CCBX, which is its Banking as a Service (BaaS) division started in 2018. MetroCity Bankshares, Inc.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The FOMC members revised their end-of-2022 Fed Funds target rate by 3.75% over nine months. Mar 2022 – Sep 2022. Application to Community Banks. First, banks must be careful to measure and shock interest rates to understand the possibility of debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) deterioration.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 18, 2022

In two recent articles, we reviewed the banking industry’s deposit behavior with regard to cost of funding earning assets (COF) ( HERE ), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle ( HERE ). How Interest Rates Will Impact Your Bank.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, in the middle of 2022, the Fed started shrinking its balance sheet in response to inflation running well above its long-run target. The graph below shows COF for the same three groups of banks. Community banks’ COF increased 18bps in Q3/23 sequentially, while the Fed has been on pause since July.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2022

Last week’s FOMC Meeting resulted in an increase in short-term interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) and projected seven rate hikes in 2022 and another four hikes in 2023. Louis Fed President James Bullard (who dissented in favor of a 50bps move last week) argued for some half-point hikes in 2022. Interest Rate Pressures.

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ABA Community Banking

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Bankers Association’s nominating committee—chaired by Laurie Stewart, president and CEO of Sound Community Bank, Seattle—has selected a slate of candidates for association officer positions and candidates for the association’s board of directors.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2022

For any bank using Salesforce and/or nCino as their CRM and loan origination platform, respectively, or if you are considering those platforms, we would love to exchange best practice ideas with you. If you are not already registered for the conference, check out the agenda, and go HERE.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

From credit union overreach to onerous overregulation, the 2022/23 ICBA board of directors has plenty on its to-do list. Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. By Molly Bennett.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

ICBA has a growing network of people and resources community banks can tap into as they continue their innovation journeys. The ThinkTECH Accelerator is one of several initiatives underway this year to foster community bank-enabled fintech partnerships. How do we filter and qualify solutions for our bank’s needs?

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 22, 2023

You might also like this resource, Abrigo's "2022 Loan Review Benchmark Survey Results." download NOW Takeaway 1 The most popular blog posts on the Abrigo site reflect many of the priorities community banks and credit unions had in 2023. They’ve also focused on managing interest rate risk in a rising rate environment.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2022, ICBA’s award-winning ThinkTECH Accelerator program reached more community banks with innovative solutions and partnerships than ever before. For ICBA and our community bank members, 2022 was a year full of potential. Illustration by Jess Rodriguez/Adobe. By Charles Potts, ICBA.

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ABA Community Banking

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

With bank M&A in 2021 catching up after a pandemic-induced pause, aggregate deal value in 2022 could near $60 billion, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence analyst Nathan Stovall. The post Podcast: The Bank M&A Outlook for 2022 appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Derek Williams, president and CEO of Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Ga., wanted to be a financier before finding his way to community banking. He has served as president and CEO of $365 million-asset Century Bank & Trust in Milledgeville, Ga., now part of Bank of America, before moving to Griffin, Ga.,

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 3, 2023

Despite reaching the highest profitability in over a decade in 2022, US banks overall trade at a discount to other sectors as measured by P/E or P/Book, and approximately 53% of US banks have earned less than their cost of equity over the last five years.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Community bankers’ awakening to new possibilities has made for an impactful year and will help position community banks to flourish in 2022 and beyond. This awakening to innovation among community banks continues to spread. Take, for example, Queensborough National Bank & Trust Co. in Augusta, Ga.

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Jack Henry

JANUARY 27, 2022

Community banks and credit unions are lagging behind in offering services to accommodate these growing businesses, and the opportunity to fill the gap is greater than ever. Read on for three strategies you can use to attract small businesses.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Financial Markets & Economic Update -Fourth Quarter 2022 What a year 2022 has been! And M2 growth started 2022 at 12%, with the Fed still buying its $100 billion of bonds through the month of March, even though they knew inflation was a serious issue. Rates have risen since March 2022. The CPI peaked at +9.1%

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BankInovation

JANUARY 30, 2023

Credit unions and community banks are looking to digital communications platform Eltropy to strengthen call center authentication and ultimately reduce fraud as voice-cloning tools and advanced AI present more opportunities for fraudsters within financial services.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

While the pace of bank regulatory changes has diminished from a few years ago, several issues will either become effective or likely develop in 2023. Community banks must continue to stay focused on regulatory discussions and remain nimble to respond to proposals and address requirements quickly and accurately. Evolving risks.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On October 3, 2022, the Federal Reserve finalized a rule expanding Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), the implementing regulation for the Durbin Amendment. Federal Reserve Governor Bowman voted against the rule stating: “During the public comment process, community banks raised substantial concerns with the proposal.

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