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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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

By eliminating or revising some of the items that banks must include in their call reports the FFIEC hopes to streamline the reporting and decrease the amount of time spent on them. The article allowed banking executives to weigh in on the subject. Sound is a $500 million institution.

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CFPB Monitor

JULY 15, 2020

When the OCC issued its final Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) rule on May 20, 2020, the agency acted alone without waiting to achieve consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued its proposed rule.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Add FDIC Chairman Martin J. The FDIC said that the percentage of loans and securities with maturities of three or more years hit the highest percentage in the 18 years of data records, rising to 34.6 Community banks have grown their share of longer-term assets even more quickly than the rest of the industry, according to the FDIC.

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Abrigo

APRIL 12, 2016

The FDIC is offering a fresh take on how a bank’s board of directors should understand and manage risk. The regulator’s April edition of Supervisory Insights provides what the FDIC called a “refresher” on its Pocket Guide for Directors, the 1988 booklet outlining the basic duties and responsibilities of a bank’s board of directors.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 3, 2015

The ABA’s 2015 Survey of Bank Compliance Officers , conducted February through March 2015, had participation from more than 450 financial institutions, with almost 80 percent being community banks. ABA president and CEO, Frank Keating, commented that Dodd-Frank has impacted banks, their customers and the communities they serve.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 20, 2020

This blog post contains a summary of those efforts. FFIEC : On June 5, 2020, the members of the FFIEC (FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), CFPB, NCUA and the State Liaison Committee) issued an unprecedented statement on the importance of financial inclusion.

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Abrigo

MARCH 17, 2015

According to the latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, community banks continue to thrive and lead the industry. As more banks turn profitable – 90.3 Blog Bank Credit Union' Unfortunately, competing on price alone is not likely to get you far in today’s environment.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 8, 2016

The GAO acknowledged that community banks, credit unions and their professional industry associations reported increased compliance burdens and reduced activity in specific business activities, such as certain mortgage lending, as a result of Dodd-Frank. “For A lengthy report released recently by the U.S.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Community banks are expanding their loan portfolios to include more small business loans, according to the most recent Community Bank Performance report by the FDIC. Blog Bank Credit Union' Loans across categories increased, with commercial and industrial loans growing at the fastest rate, roughly 5.3

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Abrigo

APRIL 21, 2020

Steve Domine, President of Minnesota Community Banking and Senior Vice President of Lending at Stearns Bank, explained during a recent Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) webinar that his bank sought both inside and outside counsel to understand the SBA rulings. Asset/Liability. SBA Lending. Learn More.

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Abrigo

JUNE 11, 2021

As recently as May 2021, regulators identified interest rate risk as among the key risks in the economy, financial markets, and the banking industry that could affect insured institutions. The large increase in deposits coupled with decreased loan demand pose interest rate risk challenges for banks,” the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 3, 2017

The FDIC paper The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks published in April 2016 reports that the number of de novo bank failures and acquisitions annually has drastically declined since 2010, primarily due to the fact that new bank formations have become nearly inexistent.

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Celent Banking

JUNE 22, 2017

A historic look at the number of bank branches by asset tier makes this clear. Source: FDIC, Celent analysis. In both community banks and credit unions, the trends have been modestly upward over the past several years. The post Why Branch Building (Sometimes) Makes Sense appeared first on Banking Blog.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Communities First Financial Corporation (OTCQX: CFST) Communities First Financial Corporation is the bank holding company for Fresno First Bank , which opened in December 2005 dedicated to meeting the banking needs of businesses, professionals, and successful individuals in Central California. Triumph Bancorp, Inc.

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Long Lasting Ideas

AUGUST 15, 2018

A couple of years back in this blog, we noted with more than a dash of skepticism that the FDIC was trying to make it easier for new banks to test the financial waters.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 9, 2017

Like First City Bank, financial institutions can use the results of this type of stress testing to understand potential risk migration and to develop better risk rating strategies. Learn more about stress testing methodology by downloading this guide, Actionable Stress Testing Results For Community Banks.

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 20, 2017

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Reading between the lines, this bank is likely over the CRE guidance levels, and were probably getting grief from their regulators about it. We perform this service for dozens of community banks. If you wondered why community banks feast on it, there ya go!

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 3, 2018

Six years ago I asked in a blog post Will Plain Vanilla Kill Community Banking ? When I wrote that post in January 2011 there were 7,700 FDIC insured financial institutions. In the above blog post, I discussed Apple and Bank of New York Mellon. Did I get caught up in the change-or-die crowd? A 26% decline.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

Illustration by Jozefmicic/Adobe The CFPB recently issued new guidance on overdraft fees that was unanticipated by community banks. Learn what this means for the industry and how community banks can stay in compliance. In March 2022, the CFPB noted in its blog that “overdraft fees can price people out of banking.”

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Jeff For Banks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

This blog has dug deep into the numbers to support the notion that bigger is better. Bank of the Ozarks began in 1903 as a small community bank in Jasper, Arkansas, and by 1937, included an additional bank in Ozark, Arkansas. billion bank with a 3.60% ROA year to date. In that, I thought, he has a point.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 16, 2011

Take Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, co-author of 13 Bankers , and commentator on the NY Times Economix blog (see photo). Bank equity is the primary buffer against loan losses. The context was bank failure risk is mitigated by FDIC insurance. Certainly equity plays the role.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today the bank has more than 100 offices in seven states. It''s growth since 2010 has been fueled by seven purchases of failed banks. This has led to $863 million of covered loans (loss share arrangements with FDIC), and a yield on such loans of 8.69%, according to its latest investor presentation.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

2) To enable communities, governmental entities, and creditors to identify business and community development needs and opportunities of women-owned, minority-owned, and small businesses. In fact, it took a lawsuit initiated by a California community group in 2019 to get things moving. Those implementing regulations were coming.

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Abrigo

MARCH 31, 2017

FDIC officials in March outlined several types of weaknesses in loan underwriting, administration and oversight practices that are emerging at some banks with CRE portfolios. Eberley, director of the FDIC's Division of Risk Management Supervision wrote in the publication.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

A popular opinion, brought to the forefront last week by a Harvard University report , is that these regulations are imposing a significant burden on small financial institutions such as community banks and credit unions. She also added that community banks, specifically, have seen more than 11 percent growth.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We recently published a blog about the OCC’s proposed rule “National Banks and Federal Savings Associations as Lenders” (the “Proposed Rule”), which would clarify that a bank (or savings association) is properly regarded as the “true lender” when, as of the date of origination, it is named as the lender in a loan agreement or funds the loan.

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