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Banks and CDFIs: Partnering for community impact

Abrigo

And to thrive, those customers need economically diverse and healthy communities in which to live and work. Partnering with local organizations to promote the health of those communities is often a top priority for banks. communities where capital tends to be scarce.

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Prepare for stronger C&I lending demand: A $1.7 trillion “wave”

Abrigo

Ready to catch the next wave of lending growth? Commercial and industrial lending (C&I) will be the next big performance driver for banks and credit unions. You might also like this paper on how institutions can produce smarter, faster lending. C&I lending will be the next “bomb.”

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Community Banks Embrace Faster Payments’ Competitive Edge

PYMNTS

Community banks are pushing for a stronger role with their small business (SMB) customers. However, through an embrace of FinTech collaboration and industry consolidation, community banks appear poised to further dispel assumptions of a lack of digitization. has dropped from 8,000 in 2004 to about 5,400 in 2018.

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Higher Rates – Faster for Longer

South State Correspondent

This rapid change in interest rates requires careful planning, product selection, and new lending and deposit-gathering strategies. Jun 2004 – Jun 2006. Application to Community Banks. In today’s lending market, borrowers start from historically low interest rates, making the DSCR deterioration much more likely.

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Lessons Learned: Banks that thrived during crisis grew loans slower prior to it.

Jeff For Banks

Louis Fed recently performed a study to uncover the characteristics of community banks that thrived during the financial crisis. It appears that banks that had the ability to do the same during the heady lending times of 2004 - 2007 found it to be an enduring strategy (see table from Fed study). Build a Better Lending Function.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? My answer: The CEO was 67 years old and that would obviously be an impetus for a sale. He printed it as I said it.

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What #Banking Trend Will Have the Greatest Impact on Your Bank?

Jeff For Banks

And then what happened in 2004-06 happened again. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Shadow bank lending is similar to bank lending but is not subject to the same regulations, and compensating deposit balace requirements. Depositors woke up and thought "what is my bank paying me?"