Which would you prefer ─ to compete against 3 to 5 other financial institutions or compete against only one other bank? Now it’s not a trick question. But why do commercial lenders consistently put themselves in an unenviable position of having to compete against 3 to 5 other institutions to close a transaction? Why do […]

Bank PPP strategies

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it hundreds of times. Over the recent months, when discussing a bank’s experience facilitating PPP loans, the banking executive I’d be talking to would say, “when we made a PPP loan to a non-customer, we required them to bring over their deposits.” And what was so interesting about this […]

Banking Pandemic

If your bank is like a lot of banks, you did more business in a few weeks, than you did in the past 5 to 10 years because of the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program.  Congratulations, the value proposition of being a community bank has never been stronger! Hundreds of thousands of smaller businesses learned very […]