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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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How a Loan’s Maturity and Amortization Impact Credit

South State Correspondent

Some Context Around Maturity and Amortization Currently, we estimate that the average community bank’s commercial loan term is between 3.5 For example, loans originated in 2006 would show credit stress two to four years later. But what is the optimal term for maturity and amortization with regard to credit?

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What's With Regulator Agita Over Bank Commercial Real Estate Lending?

Jeff For Banks

and New York Community Bancorp called off their planned merger. Today, I read an American Banker article on how a multi-billion dollar bank is going to ramp up its business lending. To remind readers, in 2006 the OCC, Federal Reserve, and FDIC issued joint interagency Guidance on Concentrations in Commercial Real Estate Lending.

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

Jeff For Banks

The Fed has paused for nearly a year now, and it was our experience in 2006-07 that bank cost of funds continued to increase as the market closed the delta between what someone could earn in a money market mutual fund and a bank account. Such as direct lending funds, and insurance companies. Cost of funds is leveling off now.

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Are you diversifying your portfolio appropriately?

Abrigo

It is only natural for community banks to have loan concentrations that result from the market(s) they serve and the markets they pursue. In today’s times, a high commercial real estate (CRE) concentration is often the result of community banks pursuing opportunity in the market.

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Putting excess liquidity to work in today’s low-rate environment

Abrigo

A storm of events that have defined 2020 leaves many community financial institutions today in the position where balance sheets are awash with liquidity and competitive markets are squeezing rates on good quality loans to lower-than- comfortable levels. CRE Lending. Lending & Credit Risk. CRE Lending. CRE Lending.

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Growing a new branch

Independent Banker

community bank during the pandemic. The community bank, which was started de novo in 2006, already had numerous commercial clients in the city; they had been referred by existing customers of Providence Bank’s five existing locations, clustered about 45 minutes east of Raleigh. Ted Whitehurst, Providence Bank. “We

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