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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). Community banks face different and sometimes unique risks.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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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’ main goals are to diligently support their local communities and make an acceptable return on capital in these challenging times.

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Japanese FinTech Rakuten Applying For US Banking Charter 

PYMNTS

FDIC) and the state of Utah for an industrial loan company (ILC) charter. ILCs can sidestep banking company holding requirements while still getting FDIC guarantees on deposits, which means that retail firms can have them. We’ll have specific goals for community service and investments back into the community.”.

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The Risk Your Asset/Liability Management Process Might Be Missing

Abrigo

Community financial institutions are familiar with utilizing their asset/liability management solutions to limit the risk of rising interest rates. FDIC FIL-46-2013 October 8, 2013. However, back when the FDIC sent that 2013 letter mentioned above to financial institutions, the effective federal funds rate was 0.09%.

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Does your bank need cyber insurance?

Independent Banker

AmTrust recently worked with one community bank client that was the target of a ransomware attack that shut down its branches for two weeks. One of the biggest benefits of a cyber policy, especially for a smaller community bank, is access to experts,” says Gentile. That has been the exact opposite of my experience.

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OCC CRA Final Rule – Opposition from Consumer Advocacy Groups and Congress

CFPB Monitor

Over the past six weeks, opposition to the OCC’s Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) final rule has hardened on two fronts. The plaintiffs’ complaint alleges that the OCC violated the Administrative Procedure Act in its haste to release the final and that the final rule lacks sufficient legal, analytical and public support.

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