Bank of New Hampshire

  • Provides a place for people to fully manage their income
  • Services allow private customers to…
  1. Deposit money into a bank account
  2. Take money out in a loan
  3. Access to a wide variety of wealth management products and services
  • Other services include bank accounts for companies through commercial lending
    • Bank of New Hampshire was just recently voted best commercial lender for small business in NH
  • $2 billion in assets

U.S Economy: Is Recession coming?

U.S Economy: Survey of Professional Forecasters

  • Forecasters predict the economy will expand at annual rate of 1%
  • Down from 1.2% in last survey
  • unemployment will rise from 3.7% in 2022 and 4.2 percent in 2023
  • 2023 Q1 risk of negative quarter(%) is 47.2%
  • Up from 38% in Q3

National Cycles of the Industry

How is the economy in New Hampshire?

Managing through the Business Cycle

  • Banks manage their companies through recessions using the Capital Adequacy Ratio(CAR)
  • cut costs
  • raise cash
  • Tighten lending standard
  • add only good-quality assets that would withstand economic downturns