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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. The national banks have already indicated how they plan to reverse the efficiency ratio increase – through headcount reduction. What is Driving the Efficiency Ratio at Community Banks?

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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If You Are Tired of Being Transactional, You Need A Hedge Program

South State Correspondent

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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5 Big reasons to go digital with SMB & commercial lending

Abrigo

Automating SMB and commercial lending elevates your customer's experience From making it easier to apply to speeding up loan closings, automation can helps make business lending customers and staff happier. APIs and digital doc prep ease the workload on your SMB and commercial lending staff, too. . Digital lending.

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The Problem With DSCR and LTV in Lending

South State Correspondent

Many community banks today are willing to underwrite real estate secured loans on just two metrics: debt-service-coverage ratio (DSCR) and loan-to-appraised value (LTV). Banks typically approve credits above 1.20x DSCR and below 75% LTV – with many loan-specific factors that may skew these acceptable levels.

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Why community banks should partner with fintechs

Independent Banker

With consumer expectations seeming to evolve faster every year, community banks could consider partnering with a fintech to keep up with technological innovation. Those conversations, he says, centered around whether community banks could compete against this brash group of newcomers. Photo by Pogonici/iStock. Quick Stat.

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Small Business Lending Is Crucial in Fighting the Deposit Wars

Gonzobanker

For bankers to be successful in the small business lending market, they need to execute on several key tenets: strategy, people, process and technology. Community banks need to analyze the demographics and varied business segments to identify the growth potential of each market. No two markets are created equal.

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