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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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Valley National is targeted by investors spooked by NYCB's loss

American Banker

Valley National, based in Morristown, New Jersey, has a high exposure to commercial-property loans relative to its peers. billion loan book was in commercial real estate as of Dec. The bank reported that almost half its $50.2 31, with heavy exposure to New York, Florida and New Jersey.

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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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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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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. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise. Booking the valuable "gain on sale of loans". They kept some.

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Marriott Sees ‘Improving Trends’ In Greater China As Region’s Travel Begins Recovery

PYMNTS

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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