South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

For decades community banks have structured fixed-rate loans with adjustable features – the most popular structure is a ten-year fixed-rate loan with a five-year reprice. With short-term interest rates expected to rise through 2022, many community banks are reconsidering their ALCO strategies.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2022

Customers and competitors are challenging community banks to extend loan duration – borrowers are eager to lock fixed rates before they rise further, and many competitors are happy to oblige. But what are the optimal fixed terms for community banks given today’s interest rate, credit, and liquidity environment? The Lending Curve.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 20, 2023

2022 will go down as one of the worst years for community bank loan mispricing when viewed on a spread basis. Rapidly rising rates crushed performance as many banks held a fixed rate constant and/or booked a fixed rate loan at a misguided level. This asymmetric pricing explains why many community banks go terminal during a downturn.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

tax reform led to much chatter and some confusion about exactly how changes would impact the nation’s small businesses (SMBs). Department of Treasury finalized rules that apply to SMBs on qualifying for a 20 percent tax deduction, with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) applauding the initiative.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 14, 2022

That's the number of books in John Maxfield's banking book library. Doesn't your bank have a bank book library? Two hundred and forty three books. Books are in author last-name order. Because it's a library's worth of books! Two hundred and forty three. How do I know? He sent me his list. Interesting idea.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 9, 2022

Many community banks are searching for ways to increase fee income, and many bank CEOs have concluded that fee income is a significant driver of revenue and profitability. We argue that larger banks do not have an inherent advantage over community banks in generating fee income because of their scale.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 9, 2019

Modernization of the Community Reinvestment Act. Dealing with change is difficult, but dealing with change when you don’t feel like you have enough time feels impossible,” says Dave Crenshaw, author of a best-selling time management book and the keynote speaker of the 2019 ThinkBIG Conference in Orlando, Fla.,

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 4, 2010

Community banks tout themselves as better than national and regional banks because of how close they are to their communities. A case in point: the First National Bank of Hallstead… now Peoples National Bank (see photo). When the bank opened in 1905, Hallstead was already a thriving community.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lending Focus – Interest Rate Sensitivity and Credit Accuracy. Remember all those five-year fixed-rate loans you booked at 4%? If you look back over any recession, it is the two years prior when banks make 80% of their lending mistakes. Many banks, for example, are still hyper-competitive in multifamily lending.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 22, 2023

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. One of the easiest ways to increase loan profitability is to recognize (not just book) longer credits. years, thereby increasing the ROE by 5.5% for our sample $500k loan.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Maybe instead of Acquire or Be Acquired, this conference should be called Evolve or Be Acquired,” observed Eric Sprink, CEO of Coastal Community Bank in Everett, Wash., While the term “accretive to book value” is still the best bet for buzzword bingo at AOBA, the real talk centered around digital transformation and fintech disruption.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

SoFI gets a commercial bank that brings deposits, compliance, AND business lending. Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Acquisition of the Year: The No Time to Breathe Award. Provident Financial Services, Inc. Bravo April!

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

And often, drilling down into business segments and management commentary provides insight into just how we as a nation are faring, depending on where you look. All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. Hints at Financial Position.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 13, 2023

On our loan hedging desk, we work with hundreds of banks ranging in size from just over $100mm in assets to some national banks with over $1T in assets. The exact closing option is available with a hedged loan where bankers can set a hedged rate before closing and solve for the credit spread when the loan is booked.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Financial institutions went from having no PPP lending program at all to funding their first loan in 90 days – and this with literally last-minute regulatory guidance. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar!

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American Banker

APRIL 27, 2016

BOK Financial continued to diversify its lending, booking strong increases in health care, manufacturing and commercial real estate credits. Progress on that front, however, was overshadowed by ongoing deterioration in its energy portfolio.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 7, 2019

billion in assets community bank with 22 branches that encircle the Seattle Sound. That's only 9x earnings, and 147% of tangible book. Shareholders have rewarded the effort with a 22x earnings and a 245% of tangible book valuation, compared to a 13x earnings valuation for the SNL U.S. (NASDAQ: FSBW) FS Bancorp, Inc.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 25, 2022

Top Line Revenue & Lending. Are you booking fewer fixed-rate loans? The sentiment is that banks have too much interest rate risk in their investment portfolios, taking away flexibility on the lending side. Stakeholders know that it is the lending in the last two years before a recession that terminates banks.

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 29, 2016

Community financial institutions make their debut here, as they purchased bonds, typically highly rated, backed by mortgages that also had insurance applied to them. Note the absence of anything resembling a community bank. local bank that retains the credit on their books), then perhaps a 5/1 mortgage should be the norm.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 26, 2016

More community bank loan officers are using laptops and tablets to allow customers in the field to complete loan applications and obtain faster approvals. billion-asset community bank’s president of small-business banking. In today’s competitive environment, community banks need to be able to compete with larger national banks.”.

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FICO

AUGUST 29, 2018

Earlier this year at FICO World 2018 , we held a session on the growing application of pricing optimization to mortgage loan books. We invited one of our clients, National Australia Bank to speak about its journey using this type of advanced analytics. How has optimized pricing put NAB at the top of the lending game?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Two-thirds (66 percent) of SMBs expected to see their revenues grow beyond — even well beyond — what they had booked in 2019. We went into the field last Wednesday (March 24) to understand, at an aggregate level, how COVID-19 has impacted the SMBs that line the Main Streets and the side streets of our communities.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

A few days later, one of the founding fathers of FinTech, Renaud Laplanche , was forced out of Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lender he founded in 2006, following scandals over loan disclosures and conflicts of interest. The really interesting, though less juicy, story is what got Lending Club into trouble.

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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 they started in 1995, they sold books. Online book stores. SunTrust - Developed Lightstream , a national online lending platform to provide consumer loans for practically any purpose. Was I, gulp, a futurist? Thanks Napster!"

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American Banker

MARCH 30, 2016

The company's pending purchase of a large loan book — and expansion into national hotel lending — will be scrutinized in coming years. The management team at Western Alliance Bancorp. has decades of experience with hotel development.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

But innovation watchers have been watching Rio and Brazil in general for some time as the nation increasingly becomes an incubator nation for FinTech development and talent. One of the leading startups in the emerging Brazilian class is CargoX, a service that has been (unsurprisingly) described as the “Uber for Trucks.”

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. in Coldwater, Ohio, and ICBA’s incoming chairman, held fast to his community bank’s conservative lending practices. Jack Hartings Photo by Michael Nemeth. By Kelly Pike. The Peoples Bank Co. Coldwater, Ohio. Assets: $450 million.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The bank was founded in 2006 and operates 19 full-service branch locations in multi-ethnic communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia. and equipment lending and asset based lending through Triumph Commercial Finance. (Nasdaq: MCBS) MetroCity Bankshares, Inc.,

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

They are built as a relationship bank serving the Korean community in LA and surrounding areas. through its subsidiary BNC National Bank, offers community banking and wealth management services in Arizona, Minnesota, and North Dakota from 14 locations. Well done! #3. BNCCORP, Inc. OTCQX: BNCC) BNCCORP, Inc.,

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FICO

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Another full year is in the books As 2022 came to a close, the economic environment in the United States is teetering on the edge of a recession. Expectations from Visa are that the GDP will turn negative once again in Q1 and Q2 of 2023 leading The National Bureau of Economic Research to declare a recession.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona. OTCQX: FETM) In 2006, Fentura Financial, the holding company for the creatively named State Bank, had over $620 million in total assets, $51 million in total equity, an 0.85% ROA, and a book value per share of $24.08.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

From opposite political directions, Senators Shelby and Brown stand on point to greatly influence community banking’s agenda in the next Congress. The mix of contrasts and similarities of Shelby’s and Brown’s perspectives and policymaking portend an active session for community banking’s agenda in the new 114th Congress. By Ed Avis.

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American Banker

OCTOBER 18, 2016

posted higher third-quarter earnings after booking more loans across several lending categories. Synovus Financial in Columbus, Ga.,

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2019

Which is becoming more challenging for the community financial institution due to heavy competition from money center and super-regional banks, credit unions, and fintech firms. I don't think community financial institutions can fund themselves solely from their commercial customers. My focus today is on consumer banking.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

What we do is really not that self-important; we borrow money from businesses and consumers and lend it back to them. I do wish, however, that some presenter had pined that there is still a place for mid-size banks that grow organically and have deep roots in the communities they serve. $5 tangible book that RBC is paying.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Ethereum’s decentralized lending and trading are floating around 2,500 daily users. Notably, the exchanges do differ by where they store data and if/how they form order books. The lending product above is a bit more complicated. Other things like Compound are essentially a securities lending marketplace?

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