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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%. The national banks have already indicated how they plan to reverse the efficiency ratio increase – through headcount reduction. What is Driving the Efficiency Ratio at Community Banks?

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CRE risk management: Identify and manage concentration risk

Abrigo

Find commercial real estate risks in the loan portfolio Sound risk management practices in commercial real estate lending help lenders manage CRE credit losses and protect the portfolio's profitability. You might also like this podcast, "How to sleep easier at night about your capital and risk levels."

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Community bankers need to practice realistic loan pricing discipline. However, we need to understand the meaning of pricing discipline and its effect on community bank performance. Bankers need to manage credit relationships to ROA/ROE and not credit spreads. Why do banks use RAROC loan pricing models?

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Community bankers need to understand their competitive landscape. Who the competition is, what the lending competition is offering, their delivery channels, and service levels can help community banks differentiate their services and enhance their competitive advantage.

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How to Evaluate Business Lending Software for Your Bank

This eBook explains the features of a Business Lending Platform that community banks should make their top priorities when evaluating any business lending software.

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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. Bank management is hyper-focused on net interest margin. Expense control, loan growth targets, managing cost of funds and customer acquisition dominate executives’ time. Banks consistently produce under their cost of capital.

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These Are Your Most Profitable Cash Management Clients

South State Correspondent

The treasury or cash management customer is usually a bank’s most profitable customer on a risk-adjusted basis ( HERE ). In this article, we discuss cash management profitability and rank the most profitable industries for banks to go after. Cash flow stability is also a factor in cash management profitability.