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June 30, 2008

Small Banks Looking Smaller

Admittedly I wouldn't want to be running a small U.S. bank right now, but you have to be in awe at downbound stats like these:

...more than half of those institutions with assets worth between $1bn and $10bn have commercial real estate loan portfolios that exceed 300 per cent of their capital, according to recent FDIC data.

Similarly, almost 30 per cent of US community banks have construction and development loans exceeding 100 per cent of capital.

[Emphasis mine]

In short, a lot of smallish U.S. banks are utterly screwed.

[via FT]

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