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How to Choose a Hedge Provider as a Bank

South State Correspondent

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

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%. Why is that?

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FASB issues CECL – new standard for credit-loss recognition

Abrigo

The new guidance aligns the accounting with the economics of lending by requiring banks and other lending institutions to immediately record the full amount of credit losses that are expected in their loan portfolios, providing investors with better information about those losses on a more timely basis,” FASB Chair Russell G.

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How the 2022 Stress Test Scenarios Can Help Small Banks & Credit Unions

Abrigo

The 2022 stress test scenarios provide a blueprint for community banks and credit unions to get started on their own stress tests. Banks and credit unions can tailor them to their own instances rather than building them from the ground up – editing the regulator-developed scenarios as opposed to creating them from scratch. "a

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