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How to Set Your Strategic Planning Time Horizon

South State Correspondent

For example, at present, return on equity performance is about 12% for the average community bank. You can’t develop lending expertise overnight. A three-year time horizon isn’t long enough if say you want to take your lending platform nationally such as specializing in lending on robotics. Why is that?

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How to Choose a Hedge Provider as a Bank

South State Correspondent

Last week we wrote about loan-level vs. balance sheet hedging for community banks and provided our loan proposal generator ( HERE ). We compared and contrasted the two strategies and sized the market for community banks. A community bank may transact one or only a few balance sheet hedges over many years.

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Three ways bank-marketing executives should use data

Abrigo

Data may serve as a buzzword for marketers, but it doesn’t make it any less important. Data measuring customers’ habits, likes and dislikes, is a critical tool to any marketing pro’s toolbox. Bank and credit union marketers are often in a unique position to leverage the aggregated data of their customers. Know the customer.

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

unsecured lending is bad rather than unsecured lending should only be extended to high pass risk rated credit). The following is an example of how I would address the structural exception of non-recourse lending. There are certain instances where, for structural or competitive reasons, a guarantee is difficult to obtain.

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The Risk Your Asset/Liability Management Process Might Be Missing

Abrigo

ALM | 4 minute read Key Takeaways Many financial institutions view asset/liability management as a "check-the-box" regulatory exercise. Community financial institutions are familiar with utilizing their asset/liability management solutions to limit the risk of rising interest rates. Lending & Credit Risk. Asset/Liability.

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Consumer Banking Predictions 2019: Four Trends to Watch

FICO

The annual exercise of staring into our crystal balls and making predictions for the coming year has begun. In our current rising rate environment, any bank that can’t grow (or at least sustain) its deposits base will face shrinking net interest margins and a competitive disadvantage in their consumer lending businesses.

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Filene’s Stance on Proposed CFPB Small Dollar Lending Regulations

Filene

After monitoring the ongoing conversation around the CFPB proposed regulations on Payday lending and other types of high cost installment loans, Filene takes a unanimous stance on the issue: Educate yourself on the proposed regulations, form an opinion, and submit a comment! The need for small dollar lending is huge. What To Do.

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