Lending Strategies To Help Banks Thrive in a Rising-Rate Environment

The Fed’s interest rate manipulations have many consumers wondering what’s going to happen next. In June 2017, the Fed increased its short-term rate by a quarter point, the third time in six months that it had done so. At the time, the Fed said it would likely raise the rate again by the end of 2017, but industry watchers now speculate that the agency may hold off doing so until sometime in 2018.