KBRG Research - US Community banks have $3.6BN in excess cost heading into 2018

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US Community Banks have an estimated $3.6BN in Excess Costs heading into 2018 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS With 2018 on the horizon, US Community Banks continue to be burdened with over $3.6 billion in excess cost to meet current regulatory expectations. Costs to be compliant continue to grow inefficiently due to the reactive nature of regulatory feedback and enforcement. With all the recent data breach issues and natural disasters occurring, risk, finance and compliance functions in today’s banks are struggling to maintain operational efficiency while ensuring regulatory expectations are met. Executives are eying a profitable year heading into 2018, but it is necessary to assess current processes to ensure continued profitable growth. KBRG performed an analysis of its proprietary metric – “SET” (Total Salary cost as a % of Total Non-Interest Expense) on all 829 US Banks and Credit Unions with assets from $1 – $10BN (as of Q2’17). The research of the SET metric showed the following:  Approx. 577, or 70% of the total, have a forecasted $3.6BN of excess cost within their current organizations.  The KBRG forecast for FY 2017 excess cost shows it continuing to grow by over $0.5BN when compared to fiscal year 2016. 

When looking at current Q2’17 performance, the excess cost in aggregate is roughly $297MM more than Q2’16 excess cost.

 At the end of Q2’17 the SET Metric, a relative measure of salary expense, continued to outpace the increase in total non-interest expense by ~16%.  On the other hand, non-interest expense has been steadily growing by 7% annually.  Total assets for the Q2’17 grew by ~9%, slowing down from the previous year growth of 10%.  Total number of full-time employees (where data is available) continued to grow (+5,000) from the end 2016, to now over 305,000 employed at the end of Q2’17.  Net income for Q2’17 was a surprise, growing by over 28% over the previous year’s decline of 7%.  The average bank at the end of Q2’17; held total assets of $2.87BN, had ~368 full-time employees with an average annual salary of $89.1K, annualized non-interest expense of $89MM (forecasted), a SET metric of 54.2% (forecasted) and over $4MM (forecasted) in excess cost.

Karlo A. Bustos

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CEO & Chief Analyst

Phone: +1 781 365-9424 ext. 101

Email: kbustos@kbrg.co

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