M&A Hunting Season: Why the Pandemic is a Perfect Time to Target Acquisitions
As crazy as it sounds, now is an ideal time to be on the M&A hunt for community banks. It comes down to supply and demand. The supply of willing...
08 October, 2020
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Tough Exams During COVID-19: One Bank’s Saga of Loan Downgrades and Stress Tests
The coronavirus has presented the first threat to community banks since the 2008 financial crisis. For the first time, stress testing is a real exercise. What community banks across the...
30 September, 2020
Forget Loan Categories: The New Way to Look at Post-Pandemic Community Banking
The pandemic has upended the very nature of community banking. This change requires a new way of strategic thinking, which we explain in this article. Banks that fail to adopt...
03 September, 2020
Q2 Loan Loss Reserve Analysis: Download Free Tool to Find Out Where Your Bank Stands
There is no single line item in bank financial statements getting more attention these days than the loan loss reserve, due to both CECL and COVID-19. With the second...
15 August, 2020
Top-Down Stress Testing: The Poisonous Placebo
There is no single line item in bank financial statements getting more attention these days than the loan loss reserve, due to both CECL and COVID-19. With the second...
07 August, 2020
Dealing with a Critical Bank Exam: A Case Study in Using the Right Tool for the Job
As the coronavirus financial fallout continues, many community bank executives may soon be dealing with tough safety and soundness exams. That was the situation in 2018 for Middlefield Bank, a...
04 August, 2020
If Your Capital Plan is Missing this Metric, It’s Broken and Needs to be Fixed Now
As the coronavirus financial fallout continues, many community bank executives may soon be dealing with tough safety and soundness exams. That was the situation in 2018 for Middlefield Bank, a...
11 July, 2020