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The Most Fun I Never Want to Have Again: A Mid-Life Crisis in Community Banking

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  • Jul 20, 2013
  • #Finance #Banking
Robert D. Koncerak
@RDKoncerak
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In the early 2000's, America was in the midst of an economic boom. Nowhere was the prosperity more evident than across metro Atlanta and Georgia's thriving community banking industr... Show More

In the early 2000's, America was in the midst of an economic boom. Nowhere was the prosperity more evident than across metro Atlanta and Georgia's thriving community banking industry. Georgia saw more new bank start-ups than almost any other US state between 1997 and 2007...and then suffered more bank failures than most states combined between 2008 and 2012. What happened? This book tells that story. At year-end 2012, the largest 1% of US banks controlled eighty six percent of American domestic deposits ...which means that 99% of America's 7,083 financial institutions held only fourteen percent of domestic deposits. Despite their challenges, community-based financial institutions remain America's predominant banking model. This is a story about the "other" 99 percent of American banking. Join author R.D. Koncerak on an eye-opening, insider's look at Georgia's community banking industry. From the forces that fueled the boom through 2007 to the crises that sent world markets reeling in 2008, this book is part financial documentary, part autobiography, and entirely entertaining. Koncerak combines an engaging writing style with a range of industry sources to deliver a firsthand account of success and failure in the business of banking. Chapters include organizing and launching a bank as a new business venture, managing in times of crisis and the FDIC closure process for a financial institution in distress. The book also offers candid leadership and career advice based on the author's adventures in the field. This expose includes trade articles and SEC extracts that provide insight into the greatest financial disaster to hit the United States since the Great Depression. Finally, "TMF" includes two guest chapters: an insightful industry overview from accomplished financial author John Mauldin, and advice on the future of community banking from strategist Karl Nelson.

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Number of Pages: 358

ISBN: 1481867954

ISBN-13: 9781481867955

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Patrick McKenzie @PatrickMcKenzie · Mar 3, 2020
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I'm reading a really excellent book about community banking and an *arresting* line from it was, approximately: "A typical community bank has $150M in assets and a 4% net interest margin for about $6M in revenue covering 40 FTEs. Community banking is thus a small business."
Patrick McKenzie @PatrickMcKenzie · Oct 22, 2021
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Highly recommended.
Patrick McKenzie @PatrickMcKenzie · Aug 19, 2022
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There is a *really* good anecdote about them in the The Most Fun I Never Want To Have Again southern banker book, which you would enjoy reading. (The anecdote certainly, the book probably.)
Patrick McKenzie @PatrickMcKenzie · Nov 8, 2022
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+1 for The Most Fun I Never Want To Have Again (best book about community banking I've read), and would add Lying for Money, Dan Davies, to that list (best book about fraud ever written IMHO).
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