Many community bankers and their boards are entering the post-pandemic world blindfolded. The pandemic had an uneven impact on industries within their geographic footprints, and there is no historical precedent...
The clock is starting to tick for community banks that must adopt the CECL standard by January 1, 2023. It’s mid-August and many banks still have not picked a software...
As community and regional bank mergers and acquisitions accelerate in the post-pandemic world, the advisory process “will require an altered approach,” argues bank consultant Joe Fenech in a blog post...
The 2020 Pandemic marks the end of the post-2008 recovery business cycle for the banking industry and the economy as a whole. As we enter the post-pandemic economy, community banks...
Community banks are maxing out their own lending limits for certain types of loans. Bank management must go to the board of directors for permission to raise the limits so...
Here’s a problem that’s rarely discussed, even though it’s happening frequently across the country: Community banks are maxing out their own lending limits for certain types of loans. When this...
Say goodbye to the days in which concentration risk management was as simple as assigning an arbitrary limit to commercial real estate and construction loans and calling it a day....
If you still think of concentration risk management as only applicable to commercial real estate, you’re in for a rude awakening. The primary pandemic lesson for community banks is that...
FASB’s guidance for CECL is flexible when it comes to methodologies. In fact, many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and consultants make it a point to brag how their products can handle...
Software can be wonderful. It can provide a spike in efficiency and automate a host of processes and problems that were previously solved manually in painstaking fashion. As a result,...