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March 2011
Rob Garver |
Sowing Caution Though the ag sector remains strong, regulators are warning banks to avoid concentration risk - a message that is not going over too well.   |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 31, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Farm Aid for Agricultural Lenders Farm Service Agency (FSA) initiative promises to speed applications and bolster risk management practices for farmers and their lenders. |
U.S. Banker
February 2011
David Milstead |
Second Growth Rabobank, the Dutch deep-pocketed, agricultural-lending giant is capturing rivals attention with an aggressive growth plan that will significantly increase its visibility in California, the Midwest and other farming hotbeds. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2010
Whitney McFerron et al. |
Those Amber Waves Are Fueling Exports Foreign demand for U.S. grain keeps rising, and farmers have cash to spare. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2007
Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
Are Banks Starting Another Race to the Bottom? Easier credit standards are being driven by competition to lend. |
Reason
February 2006
Griswold, Slivinski & Preble |
Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers The time is ripe for unilaterally removing America's distorting agricultural trade policies. Here's how: 1. Lower Food Prices for American Families... 2. Lower Costs and Increased Exports for American Companies... etc. |
U.S. Banker
July 2010
Glen Fest |
Planting Diversity With a push from agricultural lenders, farmers are adding new crops and modernizing their financial statements. |
CFO
March 1, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
The Big Freeze CFOs hope government intervention will soon thaw frozen credit markets. That's not likely. |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Paul Magnusson |
Betting The Farm On Free Trade Bob Stallman is at the center of a storm over the future of American agriculture. |
U.S. Banker
February 2010
Rob Garver |
What Now? If Washington really wants to get credit flowing to small businesses, it could modify TARP, relax capital requirements and rethink its stance on industrial loan companies. Or it could do nothing at all. |
IDB America
July 2002
Claudia Neira |
A life among books and cattle At age 38, Isidro "Chilo" Matamoros is one of the youngest experts in Honduras with advanced knowledge of animal production and reproduction. Cattle is the second most important agricultural commodity in this country, and consequently has tremendous socioeconomic significance. |
Food Engineering
February 26, 2007 |
Regulatory Watch The Bush Administration is pushing more than 65 new proposals as part of this year's farm bill., which is getting mixed reviews. |
Science News
December 2, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Organic Dairying Is on Upswing, But No Panacea Some small dairy farms are making the switch to organic operations to increase profits and distinguish their products from undifferentiated commodities. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2013
Elizabeth Braman |
2013 Midyear Financing Report With an abundance of available capital, the first half of 2013 showed plenty of healthy competition to finance commercial real estate. Will this trend continue? |
Food Processing
September 2007
Cal Dooley |
Power Lunch: Reform, don't just renew, the farm bill This country needs a farm bill that reduces excessive taxpayer-funded subsidies to wealthy farmers and eliminates agricultural market distortions. |
Salon.com
May 1, 2002
Damien Cave |
Old McDonald had a subsidy Congress is set to hand over $170 billion to farmers. But to one grower of fava beans in California's Central Valley, the money isn't just bad economics -- it's an outright insult... |
Food Engineering
September 3, 2007 |
Farm Bill Under Fire After months of movement through Congress in relative obscurity, the Farm Bill is igniting controversy. Everyone, it seems, is finding something in it not to like. |
U.S. Banker
November 2009
John Engen |
CRE Stress Another Test in Balancing Interests Commercial real estate loans are viewed as a time bomb, but will stricter exams threaten the industry's - and the economy's - recovery? |
U.S. Banker
December 2010
Rob Garver |
SBA Aims to Attract More Banks The lower fees and higher guarantees enacted for the government s small-business lending programs have some in the industry optimistic that interest by banks might surge. |
Reason
March 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses. |
CFO
March 1, 2010
Ryan & Leone |
Brighter Days Bank CFOs describe how they've weathered the storm, dealt with TARP, and learned many invaluable lessons. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Hans Dieter Seibel |
Agricultural Development Banks Close Them or Reform Them? Agricultural development banks were established to extend credit and other financial services to customers not considered creditworthy by commercial banks. Should these banks be closed or are they worth revamping? |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2012 |
Capital Markets 2012 Many economic issues converged late last year to slow commercial real estate's recovery. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Toby Shute |
Agricultural Angst Ahead? Two key players weigh in on the sector's outlook. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2010
Jack Millligan |
A Short Leash on Risk Bankers all across the country are beginning to tighten up their lending practices as a response to the regulatory pressure they are under to keep lending plain, conservative, and firmly under control. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Fahy & Flynn |
Ireland's Unemployed Head Back to the Farm Ireland has a 13.8 percent jobless rate, but the food sector is thriving. |
Entrepreneur
August 2008
C.J. Prince |
Something to Bank On Community banks have plenty of money to lend, but intense scrutiny has raised the bar. |
FDIC FYI
February 27, 2002 |
Loan Weakness Spreads; Banks' Defenses Hold Large banks' business loans have been hit hardest by the recession, but some weakening is now appearing for smaller banks and for other kinds of loans... |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
Ben Johnson |
Regulators Turn Up Heat On Local Banks Community and mid-size banks, which comprise the bulk of all commercial real estate lending in this country, are once again under the watchful eye of regulators. |
Job Journal
June 10, 2007
Julia Hollister |
From Science to Sales, California Crops Create Abundance of Careers Advances in science, technology and marketing create new fields on and off the farm. |
U.S. Banker
May 2007
Lee Conrad |
Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction. |
U.S. Banker
January 2011
Alan Kline |
Common-Sense Ideas for Consumer Lending Even the smallest consumer loan requires almost as much documentation as a $250,000 business loan, and it's only going to get worse under Dodd-Frank. |
Science News
November 18, 2006
Janet Raloff |
Cow Power To improve the dire economics of dairying, some farmers are looking to generate commercial quantities of electric power. |
U.S. Banker
November 2001
Paul Sweeney |
Maverick Banker A look at Stearns Bank could send jitters up the spines of less creative bankers than CEO Norman Skalicky. Though he breaks all the rules, it's hard to criticize a banker who has produced an average ROE of 25.9% over the last five years, and whose loan portfolio looks mighty clean... |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
SEC Fears Banks Are Putting Lipstick on Piggish Loans Are overvalued real estate loans inflating the book value of your bank? |
U.S. Banker
May 2010
Michael Sisk |
An Uneasy Relationship Thanks to some high-profile community bank failures, small banks can t get loans from correspondent banks, threatening their own ability to lend. |
FDIC FYI
May 18, 2004 |
An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Trends in Community Banking... The Declining Number of U.S. Banking Organizations: Will the Trend Continue?... Community Banks: Their Recent Past, Current Performance, and Future Prospects... |
U.S. Banker
February 2010
Paul Davis |
Holding Pattern for Borrowers Most bankers insist that they would make a lot more small-business loans if not for two key hurdles beyond their control: Many business owners seeking loans are risky credits, and creditworthy borrowers aren't too eager to add debt. |
CFO
December 1, 2011
Vincent Ryan |
Post-Occupied Tepid demand, thin margins, new regulations, investor caution - and a lingering public-relations problem. No wonder banks are nervous. |
U.S. Banker
August 2001
Ted Cornwell |
Fears of Defaults Subprime loans are behind the fears. They have not been tested in a declining economy and analysts don't know what to expect. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Ernie Goss |
Be Bullish on Agriculture, and Ag Banks Continued growth in emerging economies like Brazil and China bode well for the U.S. farming industry, despite trade skirmishes threatening to reduce food exports. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 4, 2014 |
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering Lending to small businesses has not returned to levels seen before the financial crisis. Karen Mills, former head of the US Small Business Administration, explains the reasons. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2009
Deborah Scally |
Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option. |
U.S. Banker
August 2008
John Engen |
The Other Shoe... A commercial real estate fallout promises to be far more devastating than the subprime crisis, because this market is so much more pervasive - a linchpin business for so many institutions, including most community banks. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Roger Lowenstein |
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage The fight over a financial consumer protection agency misses the point. What fueled the crisis was bank debt. |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2011
Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Alison Fitzgerald |
Why Dairy Farmers Are in a Sour Mood Market dominance and possible manipulation hit milk prices. |
CFO
March 1, 2007
Rob Garver |
Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend. |
U.S. Banker
July 2010 |
Why We Don't Need Any More Bank Charters Unless bank organizers can make a compelling case that consumers and business owners aren't being served by existing banks, regulators should continue to clamp down on new charters. |
