The quarterly data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. contain lots of interesting nuggets to mine if you know how to look for them.
Let’s start with bank assets, which include loans, reserves, investment securities and physical assets, like property. It’s interesting to note that many banks with a presence in the area have been actively shrinking their assets in the second quarter. For locally based banks, assets are down 2.8 percent from the first quarter. That said, those assets…
The quarterly data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. contain lots of interesting nuggets to mine if you know how to look for them.
Let’s start with bank assets, which include loans, reserves, investment securities and physical assets, like property. It’s interesting to note that many banks with a presence in the area have been actively shrinking their assets in the second quarter. For locally based banks, assets are down 2.8 percent from the first quarter. That said, those assets…