South State Correspondent

JANUARY 20, 2023

2022 will go down as one of the worst years for community bank loan mispricing when viewed on a spread basis. Rapidly rising rates crushed performance as many banks held a fixed rate constant and/or booked a fixed rate loan at a misguided level. Hopefully, this will correct itself in 2023.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. That 9% does not include specialty consumer banks or fintech companies.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 5, 2022

Investors have seen this movie before and are fearful of recession in 2023 or 2024. The federal stimulus also drove our national debt levels to over $30 trillion, or 123.4% in 2023, which is back to the lower equilibrium growth rate of just over 2%. Credit spreads have begun to widen. Nominal GDP was +10.6%

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Bank leaders must feel like Rocky Balboa after 15 rounds with Apollo Creed. Just think of what the industry dealt with in the last 12 months: The brunt of the unprecedented scope and pace of Fed rate hikes hit home, and banks have seen an.80 Merger of Equals Deal of the Year (Bank) – Burke & Herbert Financial Services Corp.

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Abrigo

MARCH 17, 2022

Takeaway 3 Using stress testing scenarios helps banks and credit unions determine whether estimated loss rates will push projected capital levels below regulatory thresholds. Banks and credit unions must be able to adjust when necessary to ensure viability of the institution and the ability to supply capital to their local economy.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

Most banks included 75bps in rate hikes. Now, stakeholders want to know what the bank has budgeted for the rest of the year? While this faster hiking has been good for bank earnings this year, questions are starting to arise about the bank’s forecast and strategy for 2023? Asset Quality. and beyond.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. This was followed by a focus on banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, open banking, Web 3.0, Any community bank that believes it can keep up and thwart millions of attacks per second is fooling itself.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets.

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Abrigo

JULY 28, 2021

Takeaway 1 The 2023 deadline for CECL implementation is coming, and many SEC filers have said they would have started earlier. . Banks and credit unions also need to determine what data has been tested or historically reconciled to make sure that gaps and inconsistencies do not cause problems. Start Now’.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

AI can help solve customer pain points—but does it mean community banks will lose the personal touch they pride themselves on? As community bankers themselves tell us, the answer is no. The estimated amount of money banks will save by using AI applications by 2023. billion-asset Sunwest Bank in Sandy, Utah.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Financial institutions that relied on mortgage banking fee income as a key earnings component have been left to make big adjustments. As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023.

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