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Global Bankers Release $500B In Capital To Facilitate Lending

PYMNTS

Financial regulators have made $500 billion in capital available for lenders around the world , which gives lenders the freedom for another $5 trillion of loans around the world to go toward cushioning the blow the coronavirus has dealt to the world’s economy.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage. Unfortunately, banking is challenging to study, and some banks inadvertently ignore their significant competitors.

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How to Lend More to Small Businesses

Gonzobanker

Of small business owners who applied for a business loan in early 2023, 6 in 10 found it difficult to find affordable financing, and overall, 77% are concerned about their access to capital according to a survey from Goldman Sachs. According to Randi Zeller, senior advisor to Community Reinvestment Fund, USA: “There is no lack of capital.

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Bank Product Profitability and Productivity

South State Correspondent

We focused mainly on customer profitability and used risk-adjusted return on capital as a proxy for profitability. Through this understanding of profitability and productivity, bank managers can set better strategies and tactics plus start to optimize the allocation of capital. increase in M/B.

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CRE risk management: Navigating hazards and opportunities

Abrigo

WATCH Takeaway 1 Banks and credit unions are critical sources of capital for businesses in their communities, so how institutions assess CRE credits matters. Takeaway 3 Loan-level stress testing can help assess repricing risk, while capital stress testing helps clarify the impact of CRE loan losses on capital.

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The pro-cyclicality of capital ratios and credit supply, a tale of two sizes

BankUnderground

This post investigates whether large and small banks in the UK and US differ in the cyclical patterns of capital positions and credit provision. The reforms aimed to ensure that banks have sufficient capital resources to absorb losses and reduce the cyclical effects of bank capital (and regulation) on the supply of bank credit in stress.

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Why It Is Critical to Update Your Core Deposit Study

Abrigo

Time to update to the core deposit study? If you are one of the lucky institutions having already completed a core deposit study, you have your own decay rates (deposit attrition) and repricing coefficients (beta factors), which describe how deposits would behave and reprice in different interest rate scenarios.

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