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How Federal Debt May Impact Banking

South State Correspondent

The relationship between federal deficits and interest rates may depend on many complex factors, such as: whether tax rate changes, money supply changes, government spending changes, or political and economic stability worldwide accompany the deficits. With time, these changes will only amplify.

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

Independent Banker ’s annual Community Bank CEO Outlook survey reveals how community bank leaders plan to leverage today’s deposit-laden banking environment to grow this year. Janet Silveria, Community Bank of Santa Maria. So, what’s at the top of community bank leaders’ to-do lists?

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

Our lives changed forever from this whole experience of the government’s declaration of a national emergency, leading to forced shutdowns of businesses and schools, mandated mask wearing, forcing 6-foot distances between people, travel restrictions, fear mongering with case and death counts, and forced vaccines/boosters. Real GDP was +3.2%

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Guest Post: FInancial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

This is because the economy has been gaining momentum, however modest, from the tax cuts and deregulation. As well as the economy has been doing from the momentum of tax cuts and reduced regulation, there are always looming issues. We have to live with national interest rates and the Fed and the yield curve affect us all.

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

But isn't fast growth by itself an indicator of increased risk of failure, regardless of the loans that fueled the growth? Risk mitigants tend to lag growth, especially fast growth. And success is the great mollifier to risk managers that wish to take away the punch bowl when the party's rockin'.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

Bank Merger of the Year. Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Huntington and TCF merge to create the $170 billion Midwest dynamo and vault them into one of the top 10 banks in the country. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

While we wrote about the root cause of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) HERE , the lessons of the current banking crisis go beyond interest rate risk management. While interest rate risk caused the most significant impact on value, several other factors contributed to the terminality of each bank that was closed.