Abrigo
JUNE 11, 2021
Measuring Interest Rate Risk Can Vary by Institution Interest rate risk measurement plays a key role in ensuring an institution's safety and soundness. Would you like other articles on asset/liability management in your inbox? FDIC) noted in its 2021 Risk Review.
Abrigo
JULY 25, 2022
As farmers adjust their credit needs in response, banks with a higher share of agricultural loan activity (“ag banks”) may see demand for loans increase,” Kansas City Fed economist Francisco Scott said in a recent research report. See projections for the ag market and tips for lenders in "The Ag Lender's Survival Guide".
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Abrigo
AUGUST 6, 2021
Acquisitions allow organizations to spread costs across a larger asset base, recognize synergies within business lines, reduce staff, and consolidate branches in overlapping markets. One key area that can be both an obstacle and an opportunity for community banks is technology, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says.
Abrigo
JUNE 17, 2015
The report, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , stated that demand could remain high since futures markets for fall crops show prices are likely to remain low because of the potential for another record harvest. The challenge is that market conditions in this type of lending tend to be volatile.
Independent Banker
MAY 24, 2016
This leaves federal crop insurance support as a key risk-management tool. It’s a crucial risk-management tool” for 1.7 Falling crop prices—exaggerated by weak currencies in many foreign markets—are expected to pressure U.S. A total of 300 million acres are covered by crop insurance. Ongoing concerns.
Abrigo
JUNE 29, 2022
Russia’s invasion and policy responses affecting trade sent global commodity markets into turmoil, given those countries’ production and export of wheat, corn, oil, and natural gas. The Kansas City Fed reported in May that wheat and corn prices were 60% and 30% higher, respectively, than a year earlier at the end of the first quarter.
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