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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

This development is very important to community banks, as their efficiency ratio also increased, but to 61.63%. However, we believe that community banks should consider a different strategy since community banks’ much higher efficiency ratio results from a different driver.

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Helping Nonprofits Embrace Cash Management

PYMNTS

Nonprofit organizations are responsible for providing multiple community services, including access to shelters, clothing, food and clean water, as well as educational and mental health resources. Expense management solutions ease groups’ compliance by streamlining expense categorization and providing greater data-based spending insights.

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How Your Asset/Liability Management Model Makes Budgeting and Forecasting Easier

Abrigo

Key Takeaways A good asset/liability management (ALM) model has a wealth of information and tools that can be used in the budgeting process. The good news is a good asset/liability management (ALM) model has a wealth of information and tools that can be used in the budgeting process. Optimize your asset/liability management decisions.

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How Your Asset/Liability Management Model Makes Budgeting and Forecasting Easier

Abrigo

Key Takeaways A good asset/liability management (ALM) model has a wealth of information and tools that can be used in the budgeting process. The good news is a good asset/liability management (ALM) model has a wealth of information and tools that can be used in the budgeting process. Optimize your asset/liability management decisions.

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Strategic Loan Refinancing for Profitability

South State Correspondent

In an article last week ( Here ), we discussed how the higher-for-longer interest rate environment will affect the community bank sector. We argued that community banks must learn to improve performance in a low-growth environment for the foreseeable future. This is especially important when liquidity is scarce, as it is now.

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7 Reasons To Focus More on Hedge Fee Income

South State Correspondent

Many community banks are searching for ways to increase fee income, and many bank CEOs have concluded that fee income is a significant driver of revenue and profitability. We argue that larger banks do not have an inherent advantage over community banks in generating fee income because of their scale.

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The importance of balancing loan portfolio growth and risk management

Abrigo

But how can this growth be managed appropriately? Community banks certainly want to remain conservative with risks and follow regulations. But whether outsourced or not, senior management needs to have “high quality, timely portfolio information” so they can make better loan decisions over time.