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How Loan Size Impacts Commercial Loan Profitability

South State Correspondent

Several measurable factors drive loan (and, by extension, bank) profitability, including loan size, credit quality, term, cross-sell, and upsell. In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance.

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How Loan Size Impacts Commercial Loan Profitability

South State Correspondent

Several measurable factors drive loan (and, by extension, bank) profitability, including loan size, credit quality, term, cross-sell, and upsell. In this article, we will consider how and why loan size is one of the most significant drivers of profitability for community banks and what community banks can do to improve performance.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

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.

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The Many Answers To ‘What Is A Bank?’

PYMNTS

The definition of a bank was more or less unchanged for centuries. Then, within a matter of a few years, the old definitions have become more of a starting place than a final destination. Examining sentiments around banks, PYMNTS polled nearly 1,300 U.S. Definitions Are Changing. The question “what is a bank?”

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FinTechs Press States To Streamline Regulations

PYMNTS

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) said earlier this month that it had put in place a set of action items to standardize the national experience of FinTechs and non-bank entities. Our FinTech industry advisory panel did include a few community banks. This is an area that we are studying.”.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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10 Lessons From The Small Business Banking Conference

South State Correspondent

We asked ten banks how they define small business and where it reports and got different answers. Where there is no correct answer, the takeaway was that the most successful banks have a clearly communicated definition and often meet with their retail, commercial, and specialty counterparts to manage issues and conflicts.