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How Community Financial Institutions Can Regain the Small Business Lending Market

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In today’s banking world, community banks are focused sharply on shareholders’ expectations for growth in earnings and return on equity. So, how can community banks support earnings and ROE growth in the face of intense regulatory scrutiny and competitive pressures on profitability? Changing Lending Environment.

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2020 CRE Outlook: Trends Expected to Shape Commercial Real Estate Lending

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Real Estate Market Outlook. MBA Vice President for CRE Research Jamie Woodwell said in a news release that low interest rates gave CRE markets a boost last year. “In With global bond yields expected to remain extremely low and equity markets likely weaker and more volatile, the stable, solid returns of U.S. CRE Lending.

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How to Measure Interest Rate Risk Effectively in Banks & Credit Unions

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As recently as May 2021, regulators identified interest rate risk as among the key risks in the economy, financial markets, and the banking industry that could affect insured institutions. The large increase in deposits coupled with decreased loan demand pose interest rate risk challenges for banks,” the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Why banking technology makes sense – recession or not

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Experts have highlighted numerous lessons from Southwest’s experience, many of which can benefit bank and credit union executives, regardless of their institution size, as they manage competing priorities for spending and growth initiatives on banking solutions.

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Navigating Liquidity, Funding, and Return in the Paycheck Protection Program

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Steve Domine, President of Minnesota Community Banking and Senior Vice President of Lending at Stearns Bank, explained during a recent Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) webinar that his bank sought both inside and outside counsel to understand the SBA rulings.

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10 Top Banking Podcasts You Should be Listening to

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Other podcasts might be internationally based and of little interest to community financial institutions or credit unions based in the U.S. or largely focused on the domestic banking market. So here’s your head start on finding some banking podcasts that might work for you. Check them all out in our Knowledge Center.

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Study: Construction loan monitoring decreases loan defaults

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You might also like this webinar, "How to manage a high-performing construction loan portfolio." Takeaway 1 "Bank Monitoring with On-Site Inspections" will be presented later this month and claims to be the first empirical study of bank monitoring within non-syndicated loans. . Bank monitoring in construction lending.

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