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Acquire or Be Acquired 2024: A Race to Perform … and Earn the Right to Transform 

Gonzobanker

Our just-released What’s Going On In Banking 2024 research authored by Ron Shevlin reveals that cost of funds is the top concern for 70% of banks and credit unions this year, and deposit gathering was in the top four for half of both groups. Well, we’re in 2024 and let’s talk about that “promising outlook” that seems to be building toward Q3.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Loan-level hedging has become an important tool that many community banks have started to adopt in 2024. This capital ratio is used to assess the possible riskiness of a hedge provider.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

Community banks’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times. Loan-level hedging has become an important tool that many community banks have started to adopt in 2024. This capital ratio is used to assess the possible riskiness of a hedge provider.

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Office Lending – Here is Why It is Not as Bad as The Market Thinks

South State Correspondent

The State of Office Lending Risk – Traffic 2024 will mark the fifth consecutive year where office demand has declined. If you add these metrics, office attendance has stabilized nationally and started to trend higher in 2024. Groundbreakings declined to below 300,000 square feet in the nation, the lowest volume on record.

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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating. Bloomberg recently announced that it will shut down its BSBY index on November 15, 2024. The reason for the cessation of BSBY is simple – lack of use.

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Deposit Behavior In This Rate Cycle – Part III

South State Correspondent

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 ).

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Faster Payment Becomes A Federal Case

PYMNTS

In the March 2020 PYMNTS Faster Payments Tracker , the antagonists in this particular drama are the Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) and The Clearing House (TCH), whose ACH wire transfer tech was the industry standard until FinTech interlopers began repurposing payments rails with tons of venture capital. Public vs. Private RTP.

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