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CRE risk management: Identify and manage concentration risk

Abrigo

Find commercial real estate risks in the loan portfolio Sound risk management practices in commercial real estate lending help lenders manage CRE credit losses and protect the portfolio's profitability. Reducing exposure levels may face resistance from managers and loan officers concerned about short-term earnings.

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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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FinTechs Help Banks Ease The PPP Lending Pain

PYMNTS

When the program went live on Friday (April 3), only two FIs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, had been able to begin accepting applications — Bank of America saw a whopping $6 billion worth of applications in only a few hours, ending Friday with $32.6 Small businesses overwhelmed U.S. billion in applications. Funding Circle.

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

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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8 Lessons From The Jamie Dimon Shareholder Letter

South State Correspondent

We feel that as community bankers, we can learn from Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPM) and from Warren Buffet’s annual shareholder letters. As usual, it was full of insight that every community banker should consider. Our focus is on information that pertains to the community banking industry.

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Helping Community Banks Turn On The Innovation Switch

PYMNTS

Innovation has always been important for community banks, but the driving force of digitization over the last decade has greatly sped up the pace, said Kevin Tweddle, chief innovation officer for the Independent Community Bankers of America ( ICBA ). Community banking is no exception. Leveling the Playing Field.