Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

.; Bank of Montana, Missoula, Mont.; CNB Bank, Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; Midwest Bank, Norfolk, Neb. In our annual workplace survey, employees of ICBA’s best community banks to work for told us they benefit from engaging cultures, opportunities for advancement and innovative benefits. Tom Swenson, Bank of Montana.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 30, 2023

How should community banks target and compare their ROE to the industry and their peer group, and what defines a top-performing bank? Most importantly, is there an ROE level ensuring a bank remains long-term independent and healthy? Bank ROE Historical Performance Total assets for all FDIC-insured institutions was $23.7T

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Community bankers are largely positive about the future, based on the first results of a new index gauging business sentiment among the financial professionals who serve a critical role in local economies. How do you expect the regulatory burden on your bank to change over the next 12 months?

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

A secure, open-loop, cost-saving, customer-accessible, multiplatform P2P payments network might sound too good to be true, but community bank consortium Alloy Labs Alliance hopes to achieve just that with the CHUCK payment rail. Julieann Thurlow, CEO of $730 million-asset Reading Cooperative Bank in Reading, Mass.,

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists?

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 16, 2024

There are many historical examples of some sophisticated and some less sophisticated entities imploding from the risk of derivatives. Barings Bank, Orange County (CA), Enron, Long-Term Capital Management, and other entities misused derivatives or didn’t understand the difference between hedging and speculating.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

is set to see its first new community bank in decades, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lent its approval for MOXY Bank to launch in Washington, D.C. MOXY Bank, for example, aims to introduce corporate treasury management services, as well as offerings for small business (SMB) owners.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 30, 2023

Many banks pride themselves on superior customer service, and approximately 90% of all community banks believe that they provide an above-average level of customer service (the math cannot work that way). There are several ways for bank managers to address this issue and better align relationship pricing with bank profitability.

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Abrigo

JULY 23, 2015

According to the Sageworks 2015 Bank and Credit Union Exam Survey , more than 40 percent of the 180 responding institutions had already begun stress testing, and it was recommended to 30 percent that they begin stress testing or expand current stress test practices. Understand your portfolio and its risk factors. Ensure proper data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Community banks approved 49 percent of SMB loan applications in November, according to the latest data from the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index. Here, again, lies another opportunity for community banks to fill the void.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

In recent months, the momentum around reducing the regulatory burden on the nation’s community banks has continued to gain steam. There are more than 6,000 banks and thrifts under $10 billion in assets and they are often less equipped to deal with complexities brought by additional regulations.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. The national banks have already indicated how they plan to reverse the efficiency ratio increase – through headcount reduction. What is Driving the Efficiency Ratio at Community Banks?

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. This is strong evidence that community banks are pricing to an arbitrary minimum credit spread in this set of loans. Cost-plus pricing.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 28, 2023

This article will compare pay-for-risk vs. relationship banking business models for community banks. In a pay-for-risk model, banks emphasize generating revenue by charging for risks that they take. Banks succeed by assessing and underwriting this risk, capitalizing on opportunities where risk is overpriced.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. However, for the average bank, their cost of capital is between 9% and 14% depending on the bank’s equity liquidity with an average of 12.5%.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

Most agree that attempt to fair value certain financial instruments would still not approximate the settlement of that instrument between a motivated buyer and seller – for example, there are many unpredictable or unknown factors to be able to value instruments like loans and deposits. in Tier 1 capital.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In a previous article ( HERE ), we discussed the concept of Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP), why systemically important banks and large regional banks incorporate FTP, and why community banks should also consider implementing FTP. FTP Attribution – A Specific Loan Example. bank about loan pricing.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 30, 2022

Community banks pride themselves on superior customer service. Approximately 90% of all community banks believe that they provide an above-average level of customer service (of course, the math cannot work that way, as half of all banks should be providing a below-average level of customer service).

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Abrigo

JANUARY 19, 2015

The Recession and its subsequent rate of bank failures underscore the need for banks of all sizes to invest in developing a capital plan. The Recession taught many institutions that whatever processes had been in place for managing capital were not sufficient. The result was insufficient capital. percent to 5.8

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Raised capital in late 2019. 9/25 $QCRH is another great example of a management team prioritizing long-term shareholder value, not how things are or what certain individuals might like. QCRH did not raise capital and despite earnings skyrocketing, $QCRH has resisted raising its dividend.interesting, what does this tell us?

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The banking industry’s cost of funds (COF) is highly correlated to short-term interest rates. However, as of Q2/22, the average community bank’s COF has risen only a few basis points. The COF over the past five quarters is shown for three asset peer groups: banks under $1B (3.5k The Data on Cost of Funds.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 30, 2023

Rising funding costs and decreasing liquidity at community banks are causing managers to change pricing methodology for new credits. We estimate that 25% to 50% of community banks have a policy requiring minimum yield or credit spreads for new commercial loans.

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Abrigo

JUNE 5, 2023

Banking reports to inform risk management and strategy These reports on capital, growth, and liquidity help financial institutions spot warning signs. Takeaway 2 Reports that assess capital, growth, and liquidity provide banking professionals data to drive decisions.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 13, 2023

The abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a stunning example of bank leadership not understanding interest rate risk, running into trouble with an inverted yield curve, and ignoring the impact of a severe monetary correction on long-duration assets.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It’s a challenge to be sure, but it’s one that community banks have previously faced with strength. In fact, this is when community banks shine, bringing stability to customers simply by being relationship bankers who see them and know them. And think about the uncertainty of the economic environment.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Takeaway 3 Community banks have seen less volatility in noninterest income, and many are still eyeing growth across the category. Noninterest income can be broken down into service charges (and fee income) on deposit accounts , trading revenue, investment banking activities, and the catch-all, other. Types of Noninterest Income.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article provides an update on pricing trends driven by our Loan Command aggregated community bank data and highlights some working pricing ideas. A combination of credit concerns and funding pressure have most community banks focusing on their existing customers and moving away from new transaction-orientated clients.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we will look at deposit performance data related to high balances and show how banks can dramatically increase value by restructuring relationship-based products and better-allocating marketing/sales dollars more efficiently. For example, while banks in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. That 9% does not include specialty consumer banks or fintech companies.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

These community banks are working to fix that through microlending programs. Now, some community banks are launching microlending programs to redress the balance. For example, OceanFirst Bank was one of five financial institutions that partnered to create the Microloan Recovery Program in Philadelphia.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

Whether achieved by internal or external resources, community banks provide valuable support for small businesses. By providing “bonus” services to small businesses, such as startup loan programs and referral services, community banks prove themselves to be reliable financial partners, with mutually beneficial results.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 3, 2023

Empirical evidence, historical bank failures, and common sense teach us that many risks do not translate to higher yields. The second article compared and contrasted community banks’ pay-for-risk and relationship business models. Top-performing community banks deploy relationship banking.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 6, 2023

In an article last week ( HERE ), we discussed why real estate loans underwritten at common debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) and loan-to-value (LTV) levels may quickly become substandard credits if capitalization (cap) rates normalize, as expected because interest rates are rising. debt yield ratio ($135k divided by $1.5mm).

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many focus on providing capital to underrepresented groups. After the amount of success the community bank had with these alternative lending programs, the team at First Southwest Bank and FSWBCF wanted to increase the number of people and organizations they could help. For example, First Southwest Bank received the U.S.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s a challenge to be sure, but it’s one that community banks have previously faced with strength. In fact, this is when community banks shine, bringing stability to customers simply by being relationship bankers who see them and know them. And think about the uncertainty of the economic environment.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

The irony here is that more than half the banks we recently surveyed had some goal and metric around asset growth. While there is nothing wrong with growth, the problem is that most banks are not prepared to grow. That said, smart banks will make growth a byproduct and ensure they have all their other processes right.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 6, 2022

Change 1: Cost of Capital and Capital Allocation. Back in 2020, banks’ capital cost was at a record low as it averaged a little under 6% for the industry. Now, the cost of capital has been up 44% since then. Below is our current weighted cost of capital for different-sized banks.

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