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

South State Correspondent

Eliminate Interest Rate Risk: Eliminate margin compression when interest rates rise. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. A hedge should have a neutral outcome regardless of how the market moves (within defined bands).

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

South State Correspondent

Eliminate Interest Rate Risk: Eliminate margin compression when interest rates rise. Meet Competitive Pressures : National and larger regional banks are specifically targeting better borrowers for five, seven, ten-year fixed-rate loans. A hedge should have a neutral outcome regardless of how the market moves (within defined bands).

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Bank Earnings Call Questions – Get Ready for These

South State Correspondent

Now that 1Q is in the books, if you are a public bank, you may have an earnings call coming up in some form. To do that, we wrote a Python script to analyze a representative sample of earnings call transcripts for regional and mid-sized banks over the past several years.

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Loan review: Continuous monitoring vs. targeted monitoring

Abrigo

To do this, they might review regional data to understand market issues and help them decide on particular property types, such as hospitals, rent-to-own properties, or hotels. Or they might target loans with heightened interest rate risk, such as construction loans. “It speeds things up,” Kirby said.

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How Mobile Solutions May Help Address Slipping Corporate Travel Policy Compliance

PYMNTS

Sabre Corporation has published the results of its “ 2017 Asia Pacific Corporate Traveler Study ,” identifying two major trends driving business travel in the region: an increased emphasis on mobility and a growing concern over non-compliance.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

The reality of booking new loan business is that the winning bank has offered the lowest price or most accommodating credit structure. Objectives of Loan Pricing We believe that all national banks and most banks over $10Bn in assets (regionals) are using some version of a risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) loan pricing model.

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New Year’s Resolutions to Grow Your Financial Institution in 2020

Abrigo

Key Takeaways To book loans more quickly, institutions must create efficiencies and increase loan turnaround. Growing the loan portfolio seems fairly straightforward: book more loans. To book loans more quickly, financial institutions must create efficiencies and increase loan turnaround – without sacrificing quality.

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