South State Correspondent

JANUARY 25, 2024

Recently, larger lenders, including Bank of America, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Wells Fargo, have announced that they are seeing an elevated appetite for forward rate locks on loans for future anticipated commercial borrowings. But this application also prevents competition from national banks after the construction and stabilization.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Takeaway 2 Community banks may face challenges seeking reimbursement for breach of warranty claims filed with other FIs. Takeaway 3 Banks and credit unions should leverage new tools to improve check fraud prevention that can ease the burden on their staff and safeguard customers.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 7, 2024

This example of a two-way asymmetrical liquidity option is common at most banks, and this was the primary cause of several high-profile bank failures in 2023. This reduction represents 23% of the average NIM for community banks. In contrast, borrowers hold the option to prepay assets.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 30, 2024

Takeaway 3 Banks should respond to the reform efforts to ensure contingent liquidity options will remain. Wake of 2023 bank failures Federal Housing Finance Agency review prompts reform The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) system faces potential changes in its structure, operations, and mission that could affect financial institutions.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 9, 2022

In our previous article ( HERE ), we reviewed the banking industry’s cost of funding earning assets (COF), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle. The Fed will surpass the total of the entire 2017-2019 balance sheet tightening by early 2023.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 10, 2023

CRE Risk Background While ten years ago, community and regional banks use to make up some 55% of the CRE market, in 2023, these banks now compose approximately 72% (below). The risk here is that community banks continue to take on an above-average amount of CRE credit exposure.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 8, 2022

Insights Based on 2Q Bank Earnings. Insight #1 – Deposit & Margin Management: Deposit runoff has started and will make it to community banks by October. For 2Q, larger community banks lost about 0.3% of their deposits, and small banks were either flat or continued to gain.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

Synovus Financial announced that it has acquired FCB Financial Holdings, the state’s largest community bank, in a deal valued at $2.9 Synovus said the agreement will make it a top five regional bank, based on deposits. Ford Creates Self-Driving Unit.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. It’s certainly an interesting time to be a community bank, but there are still plenty of ways to make efficiencies with an eye on profitability. ? But one of the biggest problems in community banking today is a fear of risk.

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American Banker

APRIL 3, 2023

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 21, 2024

No one will forget the inflation that followed in 2021 to 2023, started first by supply chain issues, but then fueled by the Fed’s purchases and the obscene amount of cash handed out by the federal government. It was not until May 11, 2023, that the US national emergency was lifted, but sadly, the free cash handouts continue.

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American Banker

JULY 3, 2023

In this annual list, American Banker examines key metrics of the 10 highest performing small regional banks.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. This was followed by a focus on banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, open banking, Web 3.0, Any community bank that believes it can keep up and thwart millions of attacks per second is fooling itself.

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American Banker

JUNE 13, 2023

The Roseville, California institution is expanding into the Bay Area in hopes that it can land new clients and lenders in the wake of two large regional failures there this year.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 15, 2023

The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets. Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio. 9) Brand Matters: SVB had one of the best brands in banking.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

seed round in Oct 2023 from 8 investors including YC and a16z (scout fund). Remynt : Won a $100k grant from Visa in Oct 2023. Tuum: Raised $48M for its modular banking technology, gaining traction with banks and financial institutions across Europe. QuickFi : Reported a 45% increase in loan volume. Debbie: Raised $2.7M

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Financial institutions that relied on mortgage banking fee income as a key earnings component have been left to make big adjustments. As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. talent market.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 25, 2024

A recent Wall Street Journal nailed the title— Main Street Banking Model Is Being Squeezed —but missed the mark on the cause. Commenting on the Q1 2024 profit declines for many community and regional (i.e., 3) Product pricing There’s a value disconnect in banking. The savior? Getting there won’t be easy.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many hotels and other hospitality businesses haven’t fully bounced back from COVID-19 travel and safety restrictions, but community banks have been by their side through the challenges. MainStreet Bank has a sizable hotel loan portfolio with roughly $100 million in loans on 15 properties. Sushil Patel, State Bank of Texas.

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American Banker

APRIL 21, 2023

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