Commercial loan portfolios across the region decline

While business loans fell, a few banks in the region posted increases in real estate loans.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 7:59 p.m. September 27, 2021
File. Craig Albert is CEO of Sanibel Captiva Bank, which handled $407,793 in real estate loans through the second quarter.
File. Craig Albert is CEO of Sanibel Captiva Bank, which handled $407,793 in real estate loans through the second quarter.
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Commercial and industrial lending — loans to businesses — were down significantly at Gulf Coast banks in the second quarter of 2021 relative to a year earlier.

 

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