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The best-performing banks are those that continue to invest in growth, rather than those that fixate on containing expenses, writes Capital Performance Group's Kevin Halsey.
May 26 -
Higher loan demand is helping banks and thrifts with $2 billion to $10 billion of assets improve their profitability. Of the 191 institutions that qualified for our mid-tier ranking this year, 40% posted a three-year average return on equity in the double digits, up from 34% in our previous ranking.
May 26 -
Top-performing community banks have found different ways to provide double-digit returns, despite numerous challenges facing the banking industry.
May 10 -
Looking past standard gauges of return on equity and return on assets, bank investors have wide opinions on what makes a bank a high-performing institution relative to peers.
May 10 -
A number of this year's top-performing banks have been able to ride the highs and lows of the economic cycle to still produce long-term returns to investors.
May 10 -
Here's our annual list of the most profitable 200 publicly traded community banks and thrifts, with an analysis of how they are managing to outperform peers. The ranking is based on three-year average ROE.
April 27 -
Of the nearly 5,000 institutions that fit our criteria for this ranking, these are the 500 most profitable as measured by their three-year average return on equity.
May 1
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The Suffolk, Virginia-based bank has agreed to pay more than $200 million for Old Point Financial in Hampton. It announced the deal just two days after its previous acquisition closed.
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President Trump's tariffs on imported vehicles threaten to drive up auto prices at a time when more car owners are already drifting into delinquency on their loans.
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Fears of a recession intensified after President Trump unveiled his plan to impose a minimum 10% tariff on all U.S. imports, and the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index tumbled by nearly 10%.
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The federal Small Business Investment Company program has seen a spike in interest since a new rule incentivizing support for early stage companies took effect in 2023. Now there is growing political support for ways to further bolster the program.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a court filing that it will repropose a rule requiring lenders to report small-business loan data, citing legal challenges.
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Employees are using ChatGPT without telling their managers and the IT team. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
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