Category: Community Banking | Page 2

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…

Bank, CU Complaint or Question?

Complaint or Question About Your Financial Institution? We do a lot of things here at BauerFinancial, but since we are a private research firm, and not a government agency, fielding complaints about financial institutions is not really one of them.…

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PPP Relaunch Open to Select Institutions

We know many small businesses were left behind in the first round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. That’s why when the Treasury Department reopened the portal on Monday, it granted access exclusively to Community Financial Institutions (CFIs). CFIs, which…

Loans: a Bank’s Best Asset, Until They’re Not

Although business models vary, the optimal loan to deposit ratio (LTD) at a bank is generally considered to be between 80% to 90%. At this level, the bank is lending sufficiently for its size, but not so much that its…

We Made it Through 2020, What’s Next?

As we say good-bye (and good riddance) to 2020 and look forward with hope for a brighter and healthier 2021, we remember 2020 as a year of loss. We’ve lost a great number of lives, jobs, and freedoms in the…

Unsung Heroes of 2020

As we gladly say goodbye to 2020 and head into the unknown of 2021, BAUERFINANCIAL, Inc., the nation’s premier Bank and Credit Union rating firm, would like to recognize the hard work of the employees of our nation’s financial institutions.…

All New Bank Ratings and Data

September 30th bank data and ratings are out and while net income for the industry as a whole ($51.2 billion) was up 173% from second quarter, it was still down 10.7% from last September. It is really a tale of…

Whole Turkey Price Down 7% from 2019

We don’t know how many Americans will be having a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner this year. Some estimates suggest over 50% will continue with normal traditions, while the rest will be scaling it back or cutting down considerably. As for us,…

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