South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Since our last update on pricing and credit HERE , commercial loan pricing trends for the first quarter of 2024 continue to be driven by the perceived increase in credit risk, tighter credit supply and banks’ need for wider margins. percentage points bringing forward looking LGD to 44% of the average community bank loan amount.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Community banking has almost achieved Kleenex or Xerox fame, being generalized to the point of meaninglessness. PNC ($557 billion in total assets) calls itself a "Main Street Bank." We have not done a good job explaining what a community bank is. They called community banks.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Amid persistent inflation and core deposit competition, community bankers expand their pools of funding sources, according to the Conference of State Bank Supervisors’ 2024 community bank survey. The post Cost of funds shoots to top of community bankers’ concerns in 2024 appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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American Banker

JULY 11, 2024

The top five community banks have combined first mortgage loans of more than $2.8 billion as of March 31, 2024.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Given this new signal, community banks need to analyze what this interest rate environment means for their business model and how to maximize performance. The question is how will this interest rate development affect community banks’ performance, and what must community banks do to remain profitable?

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 30, 2024

An inverted yield curve, continued bank failures, and the desire to manage risk and offer clients higher service are all factors that are driving more community banks to adopt a loan hedge program. Community banks do this profitably by turning transactional accounts into relationships.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 18, 2024

Deposit costs and liquidity remain a challenge for some community banks as competition for core funding remains intense. The graph below compares the liquidity ratio for community banks (under $10B in assets) and banks over $100B in assets. Community banks do have a few strategies for mitigating COF pressures.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 18, 2022

In two recent articles, we reviewed the banking industry’s deposit behavior with regard to cost of funding earning assets (COF) ( HERE ), and we compared how community banks’ COF behaves relative to national banks in a rising interest rate cycle ( HERE ). A graph for SouthState Bank appears below.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 16, 2024

Bloomberg recently announced that it will shut down its BSBY index on November 15, 2024. We published various articles comparing community bank alternatives to LIBOR (such as SOFR, Ameribor, Fed Funds, and Prime). Historically, community banks have hesitated to adopt derivatives for several reasons.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 26, 2023

The bigger risk to community banks’ business model is not a moderate recession induced by aggressive interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. The yield curve impact is having a negative effect on bank profits. Banks reluctant to commit to fixed-rate terms beyond two or three years are disadvantaged.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The banking industry’s cost of funds (COF) is highly correlated to short-term interest rates. However, as of Q2/22, the average community bank’s COF has risen only a few basis points. The COF over the past five quarters is shown for three asset peer groups: banks under $1B (3.5k The Data on Cost of Funds.

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American Banker

JANUARY 3, 2024

A resilient economy and the potential for interest rate cuts could infuse further bullish sentiment into markets and bolster the shares of small lenders.

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Community banks are striving to increase loan yield and maintain their cost of funding (COF). We have created and used a novel structure to take advantage of the inverted yield curve to allow community banks to increase net interest margin (NIM) and fee income on these existing fixed-rate loans.

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American Banker

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Bankers are hopeful that several factors could strengthen profits next year, including higher loan demand and more stable funding costs as the Fed holds the line on — or even lowers — interest rates.

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ABA Community Banking

OCTOBER 23, 2024

ABA has elected Jennifer Jones as chair of the Community Bankers Council for the 2024-2025 association year. Jones is president and CEO of CBL State Savings Bank in Greer, South Carolina. The post South Carolina banker elected chair of ABA’s Community Bankers Council appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As rates stay high, concerns about credit risk and borrower health are top of mind for bank and credit union leaders, especially as it relates to lending to small businesses. Early 2024 figures show a dip in DSCR to 4.62x. However, recent data from Abrigo shows that privately held companies across the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 9, 2024

We estimate that the average contractual loan commitment for term credit at community banks has decreased from just under five years in 2022 to just under three years currently. Community banks should carefully consider the prudence of such a strategy from both a risk and revenue perspective.

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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 market anticipates about $3 trillion in total balance sheet reduction by the end of 2024.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 1, 2024

Financial Markets Update – Second Quarter 2024 A dream vacation! That and getting consumed by Euro 2024 and Copa America soccer and of course, the Phillies. In July 2024, we will mark two years of inversion between the 10-year Treasury and the 2-year Treasury yields. for 2024 and 2.0% It was so beautiful and lots of fun.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 30, 2024

We recently conducted a small sample poll, and out of 21 banks, budgets were down an average of 14% for this year. In this article, we partner with Gartner to look at 2024 key IT metrics and provide strategic insight into how much your bank should be spending on IT. Usually, a bank spends about 8% of its revenue on IT.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a point of reference, the S&P US BMI Bank Total Return Index for the five years ended December 6, 2024 was 34.55%. 2 Northeast Bank (NasdaqGM: NBN) Northeast Bank is a full-service bank headquartered in Portland, Maine that had $3.9 billion in total assets and seven branches at September 30, 2024.

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Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Bank Director Magazine recently came out with its Ranking Banking report for 2024. It uses four metrics to gauge the performance of public commercial and savings banks as defined by S&P. One is I wanted to push it forward to second quarter 2024 (the list was year ended 2023). Click on image to see it larger.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Federal Reserve announced the members of the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council for 2024, including the new council president and vice president. The post 2024 Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council Members announced appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Financial Markets Update – Third Quarter 2024 I had a fantastic September traveling to France and Luxembourg with my sisters. What would this disruption mean especially since there is so much need in states like Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee after Hurricane Helene destroyed so many communities with massive rain and flooding.

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ABA Community Banking

JULY 12, 2024

Federal banking regulators released the 2024 list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies eligible to receive CRA consideration. The post Regulators release 2024 list of distressed, underserved communities appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 14, 2024

Why Is It Important for Lenders Most community bank commercial clients do not have professional CFOs or treasurers. Therefore, while the community customer may be proficient in running his/her business, often they lack financial tools and need help understanding the math.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

billion people – will likely be using online and mobile banking services by 2024. Add in generational preferences for digital products, as well as the stricter regulatory requirements and oversight that national banks face, and it becomes clear that the effort to refresh big, old banks will be no easy task.

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Jack Henry

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This year’s Jack Henry Connect was a remarkable event that captured the spirit of community banking while embracing the continuously shifting world of technology.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 21, 2023

The need for a known, reliable brand creates an excellent opportunity for community banks to help small business customers while building deposit balances. The ERC filing deadline is October 2024. As such, like PPP, this would be a limited product for any bank. Lockbox: The customer receives checks from the IRS directly.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

The Fed’s Dot Plot now shows a 5.625% terminal fed funds rate in 2023 and a 4.75% rate at the end of 2024. Equally important are the Fed’s 2023, 2024, and 2025 projections for inflation, GDP, and unemployment – all pointing to a hotter economy for a longer period.

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Abrigo

APRIL 22, 2024

Dynamic market Small business lending by banks & credit unions Small businesses are a pillar of the U.S. Small business lending is also a prominent line of business for many financial institutions, especially those driven by a mission to help their communities thrive. A majority of applicants sought less than $100,000.

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Jeff For Banks

MARCH 21, 2024

2024 could exceed -$2.0 DLJ 03/15/24 Dorothy Jaworski has worked at large and small banks for over 30 years; much of that time has been spent in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial analysis. Dorothy recently retired from Penn Community Bank where she worked since 2004.

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ABA Community Banking

DECEMBER 8, 2023

From the Basel III endgame to Regulation II to new Community Reinvestment Act and Section 1071, 2023 has delivered a regulatory onslaught for the industry. The post Podcast: The bank policy outlook for 2024 appeared first on ABA Banking Journal. How are bankers navigating the waves of overlapping changes?

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South State Correspondent

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the lessons that was driven home at the recent American Banker Small Business Banking Conference in Nashville was the difference in marketing between large national banks and community banks, particularly deposit marketing. Many banks fall into the “recency trap.”

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American Banker

JULY 12, 2023

The company said long-time chief executive Chuck Sulerzyski would retire in 2024 and be succeeded by Tyler Wilcox, Peoples' executive vice president of community banking.

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