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Bank Credit Risk: A Risk-Return Analysis

South State Correspondent

While every bank will take some level of credit, interest rate, liquidity, and operational risk, the question is this: Are banks in the business of taking risk to earn higher revenue, or are banks managing relationships and should avoid risk (and the higher return) when possible? The markets (i.e.,

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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%. The national banks have already indicated how they plan to reverse the efficiency ratio increase – through headcount reduction. What is Driving the Efficiency Ratio at Community Banks?

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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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Managing Interest Rate Risk With a Bank Loan Term Sheet

South State Correspondent

An interest rate hedging strategy, specific hedge duration, amortization term, capital infusion covenants, and other loan structure requirements become more critical with higher leverage loans. debt yield, and the CRE capitalization (cap) rate is 7.00%. CRE loans are almost always highly leveraged, and this loan is no exception.

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Community Bank Outlook: Challenges and Opportunities in 2021 and Beyond

Abrigo

How can community financial institutions thrive in 2021? Community banks provide unique and important banking services for their customers, but they also face significant obstacles. Takeaway 1 Community banks play an important role in the economy and their communities, but they face significant obstacles.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Analyzing the competition can also help a bank be realistic about which products it can sell and at what price.

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