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Five Ways to Feel Good While Wasting Time and Money

Four Strategies for Making the Trend Your Friend

Seattle Bank Yield Curve Optimal Points Analysis

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Five Ways to Feel Good While Wasting Time and Money

by Jeff Judy, Principal, Jeff Judy & Associates

Community bankers wear a lot of hats, and sometimes it is difficult to juggle different roles and functions. It’s not unusual for bank management to think that their organization is out of balance, or for individual staff members to be frustrated by conflicting demands on their energy and skills. More >





Four Strategies for Making the Trend Your Friend

“A picture is worth a thousand words .” 
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We’re all waging war on the root causes of margin compression: a challenging deposit environment, exposure to asset extension risk, and loan demand that seems to vary from sector to sector—not to mention a persistently flat yield curve. While slugging it out in the trenches, here are four steps you can take to skirt the shoals of today’s turbulent financial waters. More >

 

 
 



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