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Optimizing Loan Duration

South State Correspondent

Customers and competitors are challenging community banks to extend loan duration – borrowers are eager to lock fixed rates before they rise further, and many competitors are happy to oblige. But what are the optimal fixed terms for community banks given today’s interest rate, credit, and liquidity environment? The Lending Curve.

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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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10 Reports every bank and credit union should run NOW

Abrigo

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. Regulators review them to assess safety and soundness.

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Banking's Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: 2023 Edition

Jeff For Banks

Total return includes two components: capital appreciation and dividends. Before we begin and for comparison purposes, here are last year's top five , as measured in December 2022: #1. Communities First Financial Corporation (Now FFB Bancorp) (OTCQX: FFBB) #2. Treasury as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).

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How Diversified Revenue Streams Impact Ag Borrowers

Abrigo

You might also like this webinar, How the 2021 Roadmap for Producers will Influence Ag Lending. Stay up-to-date on the latest on ag lending trends. Solar A solar diversification opportunity can be created with as land as section corners for community solar projects to thousands of acres for economy of scale. keep me informed.

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The rise of Monzo, Revolut, and Starling and a comparison of Facebook and Whatsapp

Lex Sokolin

To a venture capital investor, the embedded option is more attractive given a portfolio structure that requires unicorns. In American terms, you should think of Visa or MasterCard as a comparison, or maybe American Express. lending is hard during a global pandemic! As an example?—?would Nobody wants ordinary success.

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Saving Main Street: Advocacy Groups Propose New Government Relief Programs

PYMNTS

The poll was conducted by a San Francisco-based advocacy group called Small Business Majority, and its CEO John Arensmeyer has been a proponent of community grants that exist outside of the formal banking system that has controlled government aid up to this point. Most small businesses don’t have a lending relationship with a bank.

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