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What Banks Can Learn from the Republic Bank Failure

South State Correspondent

With the assistance of the FDIC, Fulton Financial acquired certain assets, debt and deposits of Republic Bank. A slew of articles have been published explaining the reason for this bank’s failure. Even more stark was the bank’s securities repricing. Every environment is uncertain – no period of time has been marked by certainty.

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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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Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management

South State Correspondent

While we will cover the general lessons HERE , in this article, we wanted to focus on the root cause – how and why interest rate risk caused the second-largest bank failure in US history (Washington Mutual was the largest in 2008). Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below.

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Forecasting Cost of Funds Given Fed Moves

South State Correspondent

In this article, we analyze the industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF) and track how community banks’ COF behaves relative to larger banks. In future articles, we will explain our modeling for community banks’ COF based on inflation, Fed Funds rates, consumer consumption and the Fed’s balance sheet runoff.

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Why The Bank-FinTech Relationship Is More Complicated Than Conflicted

PYMNTS

Or, as a recent CNBC article put it, quoting a source, “a mass extinction event.”. Among the latest chronicles of that struggle came this week via a CNBC article , which includes this quote from a 2016 McKinsey & Co. So far, at least, global banks are holding up, based on their most recent reporting periods,” the article says.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

In this article, I'll cover what a credit exception is, recommendations for creating loan/credit exceptions, and tips for developing an exception policy for the financial institution. As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked.

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5 Reasons to Increase SBA Loan Origination at Your Bank or Credit Union

Abrigo

Want other articles like this on SBA loan origination in your inbox? Investors buy these loans because the interest rates are generally high compared to the risk, as the only risk the investor incurs is prepayment risk," the FDIC said in a " Supervisory Insights ” article. Looking to Increase SBA Loan Origination?

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