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

South State Correspondent

Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. We witness over and over how some banks get themselves in deeper trouble booking derivatives on their books that are bets on market interest rate movements.

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

South State Correspondent

Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. We witness over and over how some banks get themselves in deeper trouble booking derivatives on their books that are bets on market interest rate movements.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Further, bankers need to be realistic about assumptions such as usage, probability of default and loss given default, and cross-sell opportunities (such as deposit size, deposit stickiness, and deposit costs) – all of these inputs are forward-looking and must be modeled, stress-tested, and adjusted with market changes.

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Why Prepayment Penalties Matter in 2023

South State Correspondent

It is a standard provision at most national and larger regional banks that offer long-term fixed-rate financing. Lender: The bank has costs to underwrite, book and fund the loan. Borrower: Doesn’t the bank have the same underwriting, booking, and funding costs for a floating-rate loan?

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With Appetite For Data And Social, Restaurant App Taste Gets Personal

PYMNTS

The company’s first initiative is to gain ground in the Albany area before driving more of a national launch in 90 to 180 days.). That is, if a diner comes into Albany (the area where the company is based) or elsewhere, the app will suggest or recommend restaurants based on what it thinks the diner will like in that region.

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WeChat App Growth Comes Amid Other App Market Changes

PYMNTS

The popularity of lower-cost Android devices in developing nations rewarded Google Play with an advantage in app install growth last quarter at 14.3 But that doesn’t mean other types of apps aren’t finding increasing use among consumers — one of the changes going on that relate to the future earning and marketing power of apps and app stores.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere. The government guarantee allowed for a secondary market in these loans. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise.