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How Banks Make Money: The Spread Explained

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The gap between loan yield and deposit cost is the spread itself, $29.25 million is what that $700M-versus-$850M math yields for net interest income, and about 78 percent is the spread's typical share of revenue. A full worked calculation plus a named risk and response round out full credit.

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