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Articles tagged with "community banking"
Bank M&A Analysis: How to Evaluate a Deal from Call Reports
The U.S. had more than 15,000 FDIC-insured banks and thrifts in 1990. It has about 4,300 today. That contraction (mostly mergers, some failures) happened …
Allowance Coverage Ratio: How to Judge Reserve Adequacy
A bank can hold $50 million in reserves and still be dangerously thin. The dollar figure is nearly meaningless without context: specifically, what those …
Net Non-Core Funding Dependence: What It Measures
The funding-mix measures that flag a bank's reliance on non-core money are computed every quarter and published in its UBPR. In the failures of …
HMDA and CRA Data: What Bankers and Analysts Need to Know
A bank with a 1.10% ROA, a CET1 ratio north of 13%, and a clean NPL book can still have a "Needs to Improve" …
How to Read Schedule RC-C: The Loan Portfolio Breakdown
At the average community bank, commercial real estate loans now represent roughly 40–45% of total loans, and in many $500M–$2B institutions that number runs …
Interest Rate Risk and Duration in Banks Explained
At the end of 2022, U.S. banks were sitting on roughly $620 billion in unrealized losses on their securities portfolios, the product of buying …
Why TCE and Regulatory Capital Disagree: Lessons From 2023
This post is about why tangible common equity can disagree with regulatory capital.
Provision for Credit Losses: Why It Moves Bank Earnings
In Q1 2020, U.S. banks booked a combined $52.7 billion in provision for credit losses, nearly four times the prior-year quarter (FDIC Quarterly Banking …
Deposit Beta & Cost of Funds: What Bank Analysts Measure
Between Q1 2022 and Q4 2023, the Fed funds target rate rose 525 basis points. The median community bank saw its cost of funds …
Bank Peer Group Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide
Tell someone a bank has a 3.5% net interest margin and you have told them almost nothing. Is that good? Depends entirely on whether …