Community banking
In the wake of spiking interest rates and surging deposit costs, bankers are looking for ways to scale back their overall expense bases to protect their bottom lines.
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It's clear that credit unions buying community banks is bad for businesses, bad for communities and bad for government tax revenue.
May 5 -
Some 77% of banks did not did not record significant deposit inflows or outflows following Silicon Valley Bank's failure, according to a survey of executives at 567 institutions. The findings highlight the stability of many smaller banks' deposit bases.
April 26
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With the acquisition, the Lake City, Florida-based community bank will nab a consumer-direct platform and expand its footprint in the Midwest.
April 13 -
Eric Rosengren, who stepped down as CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 2021, has been elected an independent director of Berkshire Hill Bancorp. He's its second new board member this year.
April 10 -
On the anniversary of the Center for Disease Control's mask guidance, banks and credit unions are striking a balance between health and branch security.
April 4 -
Peapack-Gladstone Financial CEO Doug Kennedy is betting that giving his workforce the same hospitality training hotel employees receive will lead to better customer service and a healthier bottom line.
March 31 -
Lenders had started tightening as early as the fourth quarter in anticipation of a possible recession. Now, the banking crisis is driving community and regional banks in particular to hit the brakes harder, stoking renewed recessions fears.
March 28 -
The banks invested in bonds at a time when rates were low, and their value has since dropped substantially. While there appears to be very little risk that the banks will ever have to realize the losses, an American Banker data analysis raises questions about whether regulators should toughen their monitoring of interest rate risk.
March 27 -
On top of recession fears and elevated regulatory scrutiny, worry about the banking industry's weakness could delay the approval of mergers such as Toronto-Dominion Bank's pending acquisition of First Horizon.
March 20
