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Are de novos making a comback?

Abrigo

The FDIC paper The Entry, Performance, and Risk Profile of De Novo Banks published in April 2016 reports that the number of de novo bank failures and acquisitions annually has drastically declined since 2010, primarily due to the fact that new bank formations have become nearly inexistent.

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Fintech Startup of the Week: Challenger Jiko Buys a $100M U.S. Bank

Fintech Labs Insights

And more recently, Lending Club has a $185M acquisition of Radius Bank pending, though the lender’s $80M Q2 loss is not going to help ease regulators’ concerns. You’d think that Jiko was looking to leverage FDIC insurance to put its customers at ease. There have been just two examples in the last 20 years.

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Why Many Banks Are Hanging On to FDIC Loss-Share Pacts

American Banker

Plenty of banks have ended their federal loss-share deals early, but despite the incentives to wind them down, plenty more still have these crisis-era arrangements in place. It may be due to varying deadlines, mistakes calculating loan values or worries that they still might need the coverage for home equity lines.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

Here, we highlight some of last year’s most successful loan producers in the areas of agriculture, commercial and consumer/mortgage lending. Using FDIC data for 2021, we calculated a lender score out of 100 for each community bank. Ag lending in the South: Relationships matter. It also indirectly benefits our lending business.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. based bank attributes its growth to a hot housing market, its focus on builder and home mortgage lending, and the economic success in its markets. “We Deer Lodge.

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OCC CRA Final Rule – Opposition from Consumer Advocacy Groups and Congress

CFPB Monitor

The OCC’s decision to hurriedly issue the final rule on May 20, 2020 without achieving consensus with the FDIC, the agency with which the OCC had jointly issued the proposed rule, has drawn the ire of both consumer advocacy groups and Congress. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Rep. First, consumer advocates have vigorously opposed the rule.

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