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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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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. Many banks target profitable commercial clients. When a bank wins a loan, it is imperative that the banker understands the cover bid.

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The Concentric Relationship Strategy in Banking

South State Correspondent

We concluded that the market does not adequately compensate banks for credit and interest rate risks. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking. We define relationship banking as a model focused on a consultative banking approach. uses at our bank.

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Why Prepayment Penalties Matter in 2023

South State Correspondent

Options For Prepayment Penalties Banks use four standard prepayment provisions for commercial loans. The first is a step-down, and it is by far the most common prepayment provision used by community banks. For example, on a 5-year loan, the bank may charge a 5,4,3,2,1 prepayment.

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NIM and Its Relationship to ROA in Banking

South State Correspondent

Despite reaching the highest profitability in over a decade in 2022, US banks overall trade at a discount to other sectors as measured by P/E or P/Book, and approximately 53% of US banks have earned less than their cost of equity over the last five years. Operating Leverage – Scale matters.

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4 Ways To Quantify Loan Prepayment Protection in 2023

South State Correspondent

In a previous article ( here ), we discussed why commercial loan prepayment protection would be a critical return on asset (ROA) driver for community banks in 2023. We outlined the four main reasons why prepayment provisions increase profitability for banks. years, thereby increasing the ROE by 5.5% for our sample $500k loan.