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FDIC Quarterly highlights community bank performance in manufacturing states

ABA Community Banking

The latest issue of the FDIC Quarterly explores loan performance at community banks in five manufacturing-concentrated states: Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The post FDIC Quarterly highlights community bank performance in manufacturing states appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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CFPB: Are They Coming to Get You?

Jeff For Banks

A bank trade association CEO asked me a couple of questions while he was researching an op-ed piece. Shouldn't the CFPB work to address the impediments to starting a bank in LMI markets rather than punish community banks who scrambled to serve their customers when the economy shut down? The edited Q&A is below.

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Deposits: Do you want a relationship or fries with that?

Jeff For Banks

Internet depositors most likely have no affinity for the bank in which they do business. They troll the web for best rate banks, assuming one depository with FDIC insurance is no better than another. They will keep their money with your bank so long as the rate is at or near the top.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #4 Bank of the Ozarks

Jeff For Banks

Last post was dedicated to the #5 Bank, German American Bancorp of Jasper, Indiana (see post here ). The rest of this post goes to our number 4 bank: #4: Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. Bank of the Ozarks began in 1903 as a small community bank in Jasper, Arkansas, and by 1937, included an additional bank in Ozark, Arkansas.