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Two Ideas to Lower Operating Cost Per Account

Jeff For Banks

Last week I wrote a TKG Perspective's article on Bank Profitability in 2019. I congratulated community financial institutions for delivering a positive trend in business checking account operating cost per account. Click HERE to view the TKG Perspectives article.

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How To Let Borrowers Choose the Wrong Loan Structure

South State Correspondent

We estimate that the average contractual loan commitment for term credit at community banks has decreased from just under five years in 2022 to just under three years currently. Community banks should carefully consider the prudence of such a strategy from both a risk and revenue perspective. cuts through the end of the year.

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The top lending & credit risk blogs of the year

Abrigo

download NOW Takeaway 1 The most popular blog posts on the Abrigo site reflect many of the priorities community banks and credit unions had in 2023. Takeaway 3 Articles specific to small community banks were among the most-read blogs, with best practices for construction lending at the top of the list.

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OCC Highlights, AML & CRA Risks

Perficient

Additionally, the recent rule by the OCC, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC strengthens and modernizes Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. Your Expert Partner Perficient’s Financial Services Risk and Regulatory CoE will continue updating our audience with more upcoming articles dissecting the 1,400+ page CRA.

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Risk of Derivatives – The Fall of an Index

South State Correspondent

Unfortunately, some banks adopted BSBY as one of their preferred indexes and in doing so created risk in derivatives and operations. We published various articles comparing community bank alternatives to LIBOR (such as SOFR, Ameribor, Fed Funds, and Prime). We highlighted this risk of derivatives as we had concerns about BSBY.

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Bank Worker Productivity and The Technology Imperative

South State Correspondent

At the time, the rule of thumb for bankers was that each bank employee produced about $20,000 of operating profit per year. Since each bank had about 100 employees, operating profit was about $2mm per community bank. In this article, we look at how this equation has changed and what it means for the future.

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How To Assign FTP Attribution to a Loan

South State Correspondent

In a previous article ( HERE ), we discussed the concept of Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP), why systemically important banks and large regional banks incorporate FTP, and why community banks should also consider implementing FTP. In this article, we look at using FTP attribution to better understand lending profitability.

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