Showing posts with label Small Banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Banks. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Small Banks Are Getting Smaller

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Check out the Wall Street Journal article “Ax Falls at Smaller Banks.” ( http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203764804577060...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Big Banks Get Bigger While the Smaller Banks Disappear

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The FDIC released data on the state of the banking industry last week.   And, we see that the size and number of the bigger banks increase w...
Monday, September 19, 2011

The Smaller Banks Continue to Lose Ground

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First, we need to define what the Federal Reserve calls “Small” banks.   The Federal Reserve defines small banks as domestically c...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Smaller Banks and Rising Interest Rates

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The “sure” bet over the past year or so has been that the Federal Reserve would keep short term interest rates as low as they could for a lo...
Monday, April 11, 2011

The Small Banks Are Going Nowhere

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Over the past six months or so the total assets of the smaller banks in the United States (smaller than the largest 25 banks) have remained ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

The Two Banking Systems in the United States

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More and more it appears as if the banking system of the United States is bifurcating into two parts, the largest 25 banks and the rest. Th...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Commercial Banking in 2011

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Commercial banking in the United States is going to change substantially in the next five years. Most of my comments on the banking industry...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The Number of Problem Banks Rise in the Third Quarter

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The number of problem banks, as listed by the FDIC, continued to rise in the third quarter of 2010. The number went from 829 at the end of ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Coming Crunch for Smaller Banks?

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Two months ago I was hoping I was seeing some “Green Shoots in Smaller Bank Lending,” ( http://seekingalpha.com/article/220685-green-shoots-...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Some Sustained Lending Activity at Smaller Banks

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In reviewing the banking data put out by the Federal Reserve System last month, I titled my post “Grasping at Straws” because there was some...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Banking System Continues to Shrink

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According to the latest statistics of the Federal Reserve on the banking system, the banking system, as a whole, continues to shrink. Over t...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Small Bank Loan Problems

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A set of findings that will be released today by the Congressional Oversight Panel which oversees the TARP effort highlights exactly the pro...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Something is Wrong!

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A headline in the New York Times, “Walk Away From Your Mortgage!” Why not? The best remedy for the current economic malaise? Since there is ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Will Bernanke Never Learn?

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The report from the Federal Reserve yesterday was positive. The headline in the Wall Street Journal was typical: “Fed More Upbeat, but Keeps...