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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. It is hard to achieve geographical diversification within a bank’s footprint.

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Why Diversification Fails at Banks

South State Correspondent

We believe that while lending diversification leads banks to lend more in normal times (especially for banks over $50B in assets) and does benefit the general economy, community banks should be careful in how and where they choose to diversify. It is hard to achieve geographical diversification within a bank’s footprint.

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Cross-Selling and Upselling – 2 Drivers of Relationship Profitability

South State Correspondent

In a future article we will discuss how community bankers may structure their commercial loan products to maximize cross-selling and upsell opportunities. In banking, those numbers are markedly different. The average community bank has thousands of customers, and the vast majority (close to 90%) earn zero or negative ROE.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economic Update 4Q23 by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Financial Markets & Economic Update - Fourth Quarter 2023 Summer Update On this warm October day, I am staring at my Bloomberg screen, still heartbroken over the Phillies Phailure. But not in this market. Stock markets have been very volatile and are mostly down since the summer months. but it takes time and patience.

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How to Establish Quality Fintech Partnerships

Abrigo

In fact, corporate culture is more important to an innovative culture than the institution's size, level of investment, location, or regulatory environment, according to a recent study by the ? Digital Banking Report. Executives must center their communication on the vision for the technology and what employees will gain from it.

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Why banking technology makes sense – recession or not

Abrigo

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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Recap of Money 20/20 USA 2023 and 10 Banking Thoughts

South State Correspondent

The topics were perfect, and there were some great case studies, but the substance was standard, bordering on underwhelming. Identity management, ID proofing, preventing account takeovers, limiting card-not-present risk, the rise of social engineering on remote workers, and more cyber-crime-as-a-service offerings had most of the buzz.