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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

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. I want to read to you the FDIC’s conclusion from their An Examination of the Banking Crisis of the 1980’s and Early 1990’s. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? We took a serious reputational hit.

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Why Aspiration Says Big Banks’ “Bad Decisions” Were Its Gain

PYMNTS

Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings and California’s Representative Jimmy Gomez, in an open letter to BoA CEO Brian Moynihan, said that many low-income American families rely on the account. They also questioned the move in light of the lift BoA received from last month’s federal legislation, which slashed taxes for corporations.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

Independent Banker

3-yr average pre-tax ROA. pre-tax ROA: 3.08%. pre-tax ROA: 2.83%. In order to compete as a small bank, we have been forced to keep higher-than-peer capital levels, so that our lending limit allows us to service local borrowers’ needs. pre-tax ROA: 2.68%. 3-yr average pre-tax ROA. Less than $300 million.