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Community Bank Performance – 2Q Lessons

South State Correspondent

On September 7, 2023, the FDIC released its banking profile. This quarterly publication provides a comprehensive financial results summary for all FDIC-insured institutions (4,645 commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the FDIC). While banks under $10B in assets comprise 97.8%

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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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Does your bank need cyber insurance?

Independent Banker

“A lot of people have this notion that it will never happen to my business or my bank, because it’s too small,” says Linda Comerford, assistant vice president of incident response and cyber services at AmTrust Financial Services Inc. The bank was only able to get fully up and running after it paid a negotiated ransom.”.

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Digital Disruption

Independent Banker

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. This is why ICBA and community banks must continue to push consistent regulation of bank and nonbank financial service providers.

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models

Gonzobanker

Jim McAlpin from Bryan Cave LLP noted that the bulk of regulatory relief would come through a more rational examination process from the Fed, OCC and FDIC – clearly welcome news for those who fell victim to armies of examiners in conference rooms over the past decade. #2: 2: The Bulls. Sadly, the silence was deafening.

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Can Big Data Help Bankers Avoid Another CRE Debacle?

American Banker

Under pressure from regulators to beef up risk management in commercial real estate lending, banks are using new software tools to improve analysis.