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Meeting the challenges : community bankers' views
Dramatic changes are occurring in our financial system and the pace of change is increasing. These changes provide opportunities for community bankers, but they also create new challenges. To explore how community banks will respond to these challenges, we asked Tenth District community bankers for their views on how their banks will be affected over the next five years. ; Our survey focused on four broad areas--bank and nonbank competition, operational matters, ownership and human resource concerns, and banking regulation's impact. In the first area, survey respondents expect to face strong ...
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Problem banks: their characteristics and possible causes of deterioration
Special issue on problem banks
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Banking conditions in the Tenth District
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Survey of community banks in the Tenth Federal Reserve District (survey responses)
Complete survey with statistical summaries of responses
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Subchapter S : a new tool for enhancing the value of community banks
Beginning in 1997, many community banks became eligible to elect a new form of ownership, referred to as Subchapter S. Through June of 2000, 18 percent of the community banks in the United States had changed to this new ownership status. The Subchapter S ownership form effectively eliminates the double taxation of dividends and capital gains, which promises to significantly increase the after-tax returns to bank shareholders. This article reviews the characteristics of banks that have converted to Subchapter S status and identifies changes in their behavior or performance subsequent to ...
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Interstate bank expansion: a comparison across individual states
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Strategies for banking the unbanked : how bankers are overcoming entrance barriers
As consumer demographics continue to change, an increasing percentage of the U.S. population is represented by those of Hispanic origin. For financial institutions, this change is significant because many Hispanic consumers lack formal banking relationships. The are unbanked. This article discusses future population projections and how these changes are playing out in the Tenth District states. The authors also describe survey results from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's survey of Hispanic consumers in Garden City, Kansas. These survey results help explain why many Hispanic ...
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The changing influence of market structure on performance in rural banking markets 1985 through 2005.
This study analyzes the impact of market concentration on the performance of banks in rural banking markets and attempts to determine if the influence of market concentration has changed over the last 20 years. It offers some evidence that the relationship between traditional measures of market concentration and bank performance may be changing, which may have implications for the application of antitrust policy in markets of this type.