Abrigo

APRIL 25, 2024

Recent data and trends of the small business lending market SMB Lending Insights is a snapshot of current financial trends and metrics that impact small and medium-sized business (SMB) lending and financial institutions. You might also like this guide for smarter, faster small business lending.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 26, 2023

The bigger risk to community banks’ business model is not a moderate recession induced by aggressive interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast is for Q2 GDP to be just under 2.50%, and the Fed Funds futures market continues to push out the start of the interest rate cuts.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a recent survey from four Federal Reserve Banks, small regional and community banks have the highest approval rate for small business loans. The 2014 Small Business Credit Survey was a joint operation conducted by the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Cleveland and Philadelphia.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Communities First Financial Corporation (Now FFB Bancorp) (OTCQX: FFBB) #2. The bank was founded in 1907 and has operated continuously since 1908 with branches in Durham, Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). OFG Bancorp (NYSE: OFG) #4.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a world where information can be the most valuable currency, community banks are gathering more of their internal data. a bank software provider in Cedar Park, Texas, most community banks gather data well for reporting purposes. says most community banks are gathering, monitoring and reporting data well from core areas.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2022

Making loans is central to your bank’s operations, and lending has a compounding effect on profitability. For the average community bank, the cost of capital is currently hovering around 11.83%, which means banks need to produce above that amount in risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) to stay in business.

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