JPMorgan DeckHard

Why do cheap deposits matter so much to a bank's lending economics? Work a simple example.

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A bank's core spread business: it makes a $100M loan yielding 6%. Funded with consumer deposits costing 1%, the annual spread is 5% of $100M = $5M. Funded instead with wholesale borrowing at 4.5%,…

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