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Here Is How To Calculate Your Bank’s Cost Of Capital [Calculator]

South State Correspondent

the As interest rates go back up and volatility continues to remain high, banks’ cost of capital has undergone a significant shift up. Your cost of capital is essential to know for several reasons. Produce over your cost, and you will be able to attract more capital. Why Calculate Your Cost of Capital?

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital. 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%. As an industry, we misallocate capital. However, if you want to build a legacy institution, then your capital should be longer.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Treating all credit facilities equally by setting minimum credit spreads regardless of size, term, cross-sell opportunities, lifetime value, and credit quality leads to misallocation of capital and substandard return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). Many banks target profitable commercial clients. Cost-plus pricing.

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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

Abrigo

Perform satisfactory appraisal reviews with appropriate assumptions, methodology, and market comparisons. Geographic risks: If loans outside the credit union's market area aren't restricted, draft policies outlining criteria for granting them. However, with opportunities come inherent risks.

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Capital Assessment, Capital Planning Are Critical as Coronavirus Creates Chaos

Abrigo

Key Takeaways Stress tests and capital planning are vital to financial institutions in volatile times like these, when the coronavirus and pressures on the energy sector result in a financial crisis. Current environment = Challenging stressed capital planning. This has resulted in theoretical assumptions for capital planning.

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How To Improve Uninsured Deposit Performance

South State Correspondent

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. This is over three times the life of a money market account that is over $1mm in balances.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Understanding the competitive banking landscape helps community banks set proper pricing, respond to rival marketing, and compete more effectively. The largest 100 banks dominate the industry with almost 75% of the market share. The number of banks that control the domestic loan market is summarized in the table below.

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