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Loan Hedging for Community Banks in 2024

South State Correspondent

The market expects the current inverted yield curve to remain through much of 2024 (based on long-term interest rates and the expected rate cuts in 2024). This article will discuss how national, regional, and community banks may use loan hedging programs in 2024 to face earnings challenges.

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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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Banks Should Make 2024 a True ‘Year of Digital’

Gonzobanker

2024 will prove to be a remarkably busy year in the digital space, when many financial institutions will make near-life-or-death choices about the future of their digital platforms and how they will support them. This is an area where speed-to-market competition will be important. #3. Josh Davis is a director at Cornerstone Advisors.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Here's a rant.

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

Gonzobanker

We can’t sleep on non-bank competition, bigger banks controlling even greater market share, or big tech and embedded finance. M&A Dynamics Last year, we left AOBA noting that most bankers were optimistic about deals picking up later in 2023 and that the chances of a raging 2024 were strong.

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The Recency Trap and Building Deposit Balances

South State Correspondent

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. The data would indicate not marketing to a new customer is a mistake.

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

South State Correspondent

Loan-level hedging has become an important tool that many community banks have started to adopt in 2024. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans.