TieOut Market Insights

Where the 1,921 community banks in TieOut’s market sit on the operations ladder, and what the research found at each stage.

Real example Every figure counts banks analysed No bank is named As of 21 September 2026 Back to the five steps

Region
Assets
Charter
Company size

Showing all 1,921 banks analysed

1,921banks analysed
175worth engaging
17not placed on the ladder

The operations ladder

Counting the banks…

Stage mix by region

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Each bar is the share of that group’s banks analysed where the research found it: how often it showed up in what was read, not a rate for the market. Hatched bars rest on fewer than 20 banks.

What the research found at each stage

Each bar is drawn against the banks at that stage in this view. A trait counts where the research confirmed it; a signal counts where it found at least one dated signal of that type.

Timing signals

By assets and company size

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Fit and timing, scored separately

Fit is how closely a bank matches the traits TieOut’s best customers share. Timing is how much dated evidence says now is the moment. They are separate measurements, so they are shown apart and never combined.

How to read this

Counts, not shares of the market

Every figure counts banks where the research found the evidence. A bank that isn’t counted may still have the trait; the research didn’t find it. Where a share appears, it’s a share of the banks analysed in that group.

Who is in it

Every US community bank in the example that passed all three entry gates, 1,921 in all, taken at the latest analysis of each.

Region, assets and charter

These three come from the FDIC’s public directory of insured banks, not from the research. A charter says who licenses and supervises a bank.

Two readings of size

The research and the directory each say how large a bank is, on different dates. The page shows both and doesn’t reconcile them.

What counts as confirmed

A trait counts as confirmed when the research recorded it as met or partially met against a cited source.

Timing signals

A signal type counts once per bank, when the research found at least one dated signal of that type. Signals outside the ten types aren’t broken out.

The ladder

Stages come from each bank’s own operating numbers. The efficiency ratio is what a bank spends to earn each dollar of revenue, so higher is worse.

Small samples

Any view resting on fewer than 20 banks is hatched and flagged. The number is still exact; read it as anecdote rather than pattern.

Company size

Smaller, mid-market and larger are the research’s own size bands. They are a separate reading from the directory’s asset bands, which is why both are here.

No bank is named

Each row is banded and anonymous, and this page counts rows without ever listing them. The fifteen banks published elsewhere in the example aren’t marked here.

No bank is named on this page. Figures are as of 21 September 2026. The company doing the selling, TieOut, is invented. The banks, the records and the dates are real public information.

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