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FDIC: Bank Profits Fall amid Ongoing Pandemic; Community Bank Income Grows

ABA Community Banking

FDIC-insured banks and savings institutions earned $18.8 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a 70% decline from a year prior, the FDIC reported today. The post FDIC: Bank Profits Fall amid Ongoing Pandemic; Community Bank Income Grows appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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FDIC Proposes Large-Bank Surcharge

Independent Banker

The FDIC has released a proposal to indemnify the banks with assets less than $10 billion from the costs of raising the Deposit Insurance Fund reserve ratio from 1.15 The provision will ultimately provide thousands of community banks a reduction in deposit-insurance premiums of up to 30 percent. percent to 1.35

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

Independent Banker’s annual listing top-performing community banks of 2021 alongside interviews with some of the winners. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success. In true community bank fashion, each has its own story to tell and its own path to success.

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Survey Finds Cost of Funds Top of Mind for Community Bankers

ABA Community Banking

Heated competition for bank funding is an increasingly important focus for community bank leaders, according to an annual survey released today by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.

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Expanding credit portfolios: 3 Growing pains

Abrigo

Community banks are expanding their loan portfolios to include more small business loans, according to the most recent Community Bank Performance report by the FDIC. Loans across categories increased, with commercial and industrial loans growing at the fastest rate, roughly 5.3 percent over the 3rd quarter of 2013.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. Although community banks did not lend to sub-prime borrowers in any meaningful way, did we participate? credit default swaps anyone?).

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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.