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These Are Your Most Profitable Cash Management Clients

South State Correspondent

The treasury or cash management customer is usually a bank’s most profitable customer on a risk-adjusted basis ( HERE ). In this article, we discuss cash management profitability and rank the most profitable industries for banks to go after. Cash flow stability is also a factor in cash management profitability.

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The Recency Trap and Building Deposit Balances

South State Correspondent

Most national and regional banks allocate marketing resources to recently acquired customers to get them to build deposit balances and purchase other products, while most community banks do not. ” This article explores the recency trap and discusses how to prevent it. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.”

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

In this article, we would like to define loan pricing discipline and cover bid, why it matters, and demonstrate how most community banks currently are not using loan pricing discipline. Bankers need to manage credit relationships to ROA/ROE and not credit spreads. Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Traditionally, community banks would compare their financial performance and health to similar-sized banks in their region. By excluding larger bank lending competitors, this SWOT analysis is mainly useless because it doesn’t compare this community bank’s performance with the majority of the banking competition in its region.

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The Concentric Relationship Strategy in Banking

South State Correspondent

In recent articles ( here and here and here ), we discussed why banks that take risks to earn higher revenue demonstrate lower performance as measured by return on assets (ROA). This article shares a simple strategy a successful lender (Linda N.) This methodology needs to be trained, practiced, and managed. uses at our bank.

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What Relationship Pricing Means for Bank Performance

South State Correspondent

There are several ways for bank managers to address this issue and better align relationship pricing with bank profitability. The real issue for many banks is that managers cannot easily identify and measure the service level or correctly measure granular returns at the customer, product, branch, region, or supervisor level.

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How Loan Size Impacts Commercial Loan Profitability

South State Correspondent

In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance. Second, larger companies have more diverse management talent to help them navigate recessions. Larger loans have lower credit risk, all else equal.