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

South State Correspondent

Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. Second, the hedge provider must be an FDIC insured institution and structure its hedges as a qualified financial contract (QFC).

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

South State Correspondent

Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. Second, the hedge provider must be an FDIC insured institution and structure its hedges as a qualified financial contract (QFC).

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The Federal Home Loan Bank System: Lender of Next-to-Last Resort

Jeff For Banks

"The FDIC recently has observed instances of liquidity stress at a small number of insured banks." So opened the Summer 2017 FDIC Supervisory Insights issue. The national average rate for a money market account at the end of last year was 0.09%. And so went your exams. What would you do? Prepare for that.

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

CFPB Monitor

The OCC’s decision to hurriedly issue the final rule on May 20, 2020 without achieving consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued the proposed rule, has drawn the ire of both consumer advocacy groups and Congress. First, consumer advocates have vigorously opposed the rule.

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Dear Mr./Ms. Bank Regulator

Jeff For Banks

Whatshisname, Below is our response to the Matters Requiring Attention ("MRA") that were included in your most recent examination report on Schmidlap National Bank ("Schmidlap"). You opined they lacked analytic rigor. Warm Regards, Schmidlap National Bank. That, Mr. Whatshisname, is the definition of tyranny.

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Consumer Banking Predictions 2019: Four Trends to Watch

FICO

Indeed, we are already starting to see signs of distress among community and regional banks that lack the advertising budgets and sophisticated digital capabilities of the big national banks. In response to this competitive pressure, top 100 banks will invest in an area that has been neglected for too long — deposit pricing strategy.

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Three Wishes for Bankers

Jeff For Banks

Most readers are accustomed to me being analytical. For example, what if Schmidlap National Bank and Pipefitters Local CU teamed up to end poverty in their local market? If I had a genie in a bottle that granted me three wishes, I would shoot for grander goals such as world peace, end poverty, and ban Mariah Carey Christmas songs.

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