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How to Manage Your Efficiency Ratio with Loan Size

South State Correspondent

The national banks have already indicated how they plan to reverse the efficiency ratio increase – through headcount reduction. The national banks have been clear and loud about how they intend to decrease their efficiency ratios – with headcount reductions.

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How To Do Better Against National Bank Lending Competition

South State Correspondent

Many existing community bank customers and prospects are also national bank customers. Community bankers must understand how and why the country’s largest banks compete for the most profitable local deposit and loan customers and be able to respond to that competitive threat.

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How to Practice Loan Pricing Discipline

South State Correspondent

Bankers need to manage credit relationships to ROA/ROE and not credit spreads. Objectives of Loan Pricing We believe that all national banks and most banks over $10Bn in assets (regionals) are using some version of a risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) loan pricing model.

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Member business lending: How to leverage MBL for credit union growth

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Where to begin Develop a member business lending strategy Developing a sound MBL strategy, or tightening an existing one, can help credit unions achieve long-term success in managing member business lending risks. How robust is your compliance program? Re member , it’s often the “slow and steady that wins the race.”

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5 Steps to Better Treasury Management

South State Correspondent

If one product is the future of banking, it is treasury management. In this article, we detail the five steps to building a treasury management strategy, provide some tools to execute those steps, and then provide a complimentary survey to assess your strengths and weaknesses. It starts by targeting the right customers.

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Managing Interest Rate Risk With a Bank Loan Term Sheet

South State Correspondent

We recently reviewed a loan term sheet from a national bank for a $13mm commercial real estate (CRE) loan. This particular national bank has the ability to offer the borrower an interest rate hedge or an on-balance sheet fixed-rate loan. The borrower was provided options on the type of hedge and when to execute.

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How to Lock a Forward Rate on a Loan

South State Correspondent

Forward Rate Lock Tools National lenders have been using locks for decades, and these instruments can take many forms. But this application also prevents competition from national banks after the construction and stabilization. The post How to Lock a Forward Rate on a Loan appeared first on SouthState Correspondent Division.

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