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Senior Vice President
Chad Hunter has over 25 years of interest rate derivative and capital markets experience. At PCBB, Chad helps clients strategize, structure, and execute hedging solutions to mitigate interest rate ris...
SVP & Manager, Hedging Services
Femi Audifferen has over 23 years of banking and capital markets experience. At PCBB, Femi is currently Senior Vice President and Manager of Hedging Solutions. In that role, he helps clients strategiz...
SVP & Manager of Customer Success
Jim Nakagawa has over 30 years of experience in capital markets and banking. He specializes in fixed income (derivatives and cash) and in foreign exchange (spot, forward, hedging and investing strateg...
Vice President
Marian Mojab has over 17 years of banking and capital markets experience. At PCBB, Marian helps community financial institutions strategize, structure, and execute hedging solutions to mitigate intere...
Senior Vice President
Rob Sabo has over 20 years of experience in banking, advisory, derivatives, and financial and capital markets. In Rob’s role as a Hedging Specialist at PCBB, he helps clients to strategize, structure,...
Webpages
Sep 16, 2024
Provide long-term, fixed-rates to your customers, while your institution receives a floating rate through our loan hedging solution, Borrowers Loan Protection (BLP).
Sep 15, 2024
BLP protects community financial institutions from the risk of rising rates, with an interest rate hedge without any derivative implication.
Sep 15, 2024
We offer loan hedging tools that lenders can use to gain a competitive edge and meet your borrowers’ hedging needs.
Sep 18, 2024
We help community financial institutions maximize revenue, increase efficiency, and manage risk through a robust suite of competitive banking services such as Cash Management, Lending Solutions, Loan Hedging, International Banking, and Advisory Services (
Sep 18, 2024
Keep up with industry updates and market trends through our whitepapers, podcasts, webinars, and more for cutting-edge industry insights tailored for community financial institutions. Access bank mergers and acquisitions, economic forecasts, and daily mar
Sep 18, 2024
Discover our suite of correspondent banking services tailored for community financial institutions. Learn more about how we can help you maximize revenue, boost efficiency, and manage risk with support from our established team of experts.
Whitepapers
Oct 24, 2023
When borrowers seek the stability of a fixed-rate loan and your institution prefers a floating rate loan it creates a disconnect between the needs of your borrower and your CFI. So, what can you do to fix it? Develop a loan hedging strategy. We offer insights on how to select the right hedging program and develop your hedging strategy, and look at how hedging can help reduce volatility.
Case Studies
Jul 1, 2018
How PCBB helped a rural community bank compete with the big banks and win by helping them offer their customers long term fixed rates while getting a floating-rate asset on the books.
Webinars
Feb 13, 2020
In this webinar, we look at the benefits of generating upfront fee income through hedging and discuss how most loans, including those already on your books qualify.
BID Newsletters
Feb 20, 2024
Economic indicators suggest that the Fed is likely to ease monetary policy by lowering the Federal Funds Rate at some point this year. We discuss what factors could influence the Fed’s decisions and how hedging strategies could benefit your CFI in this changing market.
Jan 17, 2024
A CFI’s bond portfolio can face serious risk when interest rates rise. Duration hedging can help moderate that risk, but many financial institutions don’t use it. We review the most common duration hedging strategies to consider for interest rate risk mitigation.
Aug 8, 2023
CRE developers and lenders are seeing a stressed landscape for their business, as predictions of workers returning to offices haven’t been fully realized. A forward rate lock hedge can help both sides of the lending transaction by fixing a rate on future loans.
May 2, 2023
In the current interest rate environment, forward rate locks offer both CFIs and borrowers an opportunity to mitigate interest rate risk. Femi Audifferen, SVP of Hedging Solutions at PCBB, explains why now might be an opportune time to hedge with a forward rate lock.
Oct 13, 2022
Financial institutions are turning to interest rate swaps and other derivatives to hedge against rising interest rates and to offer customers greater flexibility when structuring loans. As customers try to fix borrowing costs amid rising interest rates, swaps are something your CFI might want to consider.