Month: May 2021

Lending a Helping Hand, Sometimes Means Lending.

Loan volumes at the nation’s community banks grew over 10% during 2020. And that’s no coincidence. With help from the Government’s Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) Program, Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Loans accounted for more than two-thirds of that growth. But…

De Novos: Banking With a Purpose

This year is poised to be the most active for de novo banks that we’ve seen since before he Great Recession. Five new banks have already opened their doors and two others are scheduled to open in June. While we…

Temporary Hit to Capital Ratios

…and They’d do it Again. This week we will take a look at how some community banks have been helping their neighbors and communities during the past year. In some cases, that help has come at the expense of the…

Big Bank Branches are Fewer by the Month

It seems that every week there’s a new story about a bank that’s closing branches. We’ve almost become numb to it… unless of course it’s our branch that’s shutting down. But its who is closing those branches is what we…

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